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Lactation consultants urge committee to restore reassignment restriction in A3008
Summary
Lactation consultants testified against committee amendments to A3008, saying the deletion of a provision preventing reassignment during lactation shifts would put clinically trained IBCLCs at risk and could allow staff with only brief counseling credentials to perform hospital-based clinical care.
At a committee hearing, board‑certified lactation consultants urged the Assembly Communities Development and Women—s Affairs Committee to restore a deleted provision in amended A3008 that would have prohibited hospitals from reassigning lactation consultants during a lactation shift.
Alba, identifying herself as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), said she opposes the bill as amended because Community Lactation Counselor…
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