Neb. governor signs new safe-haven bill
Law goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday
Updated: Friday, 21 Nov 2008, 2:33 PM CST
Published : Friday, 21 Nov 2008, 2:33 PM CST
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a bill that adds a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law led to the abandonment of nearly three dozen children, including some teenagers as old as 17.
The law goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
Heineman signed the bill on Friday afternoon without fanfare and did not immediately issue a statement on the law.
The Legislature, meeting in special session, gave its final approval earlier Friday.
Nebraska has been the only safe-haven law in the country without an age limit. Designed to prevent newborns from being dumped in trash bins or worse, the law instead led to the drop-off of 35 children since September, none of them infants.
They have mostly been preteens and teenagers as old as 17.
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On the Net: Gov. Dave Heineman: http://www.governor.nebraska.gov/
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