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| | | An Act To Ensure Adequate Health Care for Children |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §554, sub-§1, ¶B-2, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 429, | | §2, is amended to read: |
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| | | B-2. Being a parent, foster parent, guardian or other | | person responsible for the long-term general care and | | welfare of a child under 16, recklessly fails to take | | reasonable measures to protect the child from the risk of | | further bodily injury after knowing: |
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| | | (1) That the child had, in fact, sustained serious | | bodily injury or bodily injury under circumstances | | posing a substantial risk of serious bodily injury; and |
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| | | (2) That such bodily injury was, in fact, caused by | | the unlawful use of physical force by another person; | or |
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| | | Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §554, sub-§1, ¶B-3 is enacted to read: |
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| | | B-3.__Being the parent, foster parent, guardian or other | | person having the care and custody of the child, knowingly | | deprives the child of necessary health care, with the result | | that the child is placed in danger of serious harm; or |
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