Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 320 – Declaration of legislative intent; definitions
(a) The General Assembly hereby declares that the health and safety of the children and pregnant and postpartum persons of the State will be safeguarded if deaths of children under the age of 18 and stillbirths occurring after at least 20 weeks of gestation and maternal death are reviewed, in order to provide its findings or recommendations to alleviate those practices or conditions which impact the mortality of children and pregnant and postpartum persons.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 320
- Child: means a person who has not yet attained the child's eighteenth birthday. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 301
- Maternal death: includes pregnancy-related death and pregnancy-associated death. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 301
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) “Commission” means the Maternal and Child Death Review Commission.
(2) “Stillbirth” means as defined in § 3101 of Title 16.
70 Del. Laws, c. 256, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 73 Del. Laws, c. 331, §§ ?2, 3; 74 Del. Laws, c. 376, § ?3; 75 Del. Laws, c. 269, § ?1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 373, § ?2; 80 Del. Laws, c. 187, § ?17; 81 Del. Laws, c. 142, § 1; 83 Del. Laws, c. 364, § 2;