As Introduced

136th General Assembly

Regular Session S. B. No. 441

2025-2026

Senators Ingram, Hicks-Hudson

To enact section 5.2544 of the Revised Code to designate the second week of May as "Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis Awareness Week."

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

Section 1. That section 5.2544 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 5.2544. The week beginning on the second Sunday in May is designated as "Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis Awareness Week" to increase awareness of the signs and symptoms of these life-threatening conditions, to share survivors' personal experiences, and to remember the lives lost to maternal and neonatal sepsis.