Requires information on possible complications from pregnancy that can lead to death; requires screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4637--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 18, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing informa-
tion on possible complications from pregnancy; and in relation to
screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2803-j of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 1-e to read as follows:
3 1-e. The informational leaflet shall also include information on
4 possible complications from pregnancy that can endanger the life or
5 health of the newborn or the mother. The commissioner, in consultation
6 with any state or local government maternal mortality review boards,
7 shall review and update this information as necessary.
8 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2803-n of the public
9 health law, as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of 2014, is amended to
10 read as follows:
11 (b) Maternity care shall also include, at minimum, parent education,
12 assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, education on mater-
13 nal depression, education on maternal depression screening and refer-
14 rals, and the performance of any necessary or appropriate maternal and
15 newborn clinical assessments and screenings and appropriate referrals.
16 Notwithstanding this requirement, nothing in this paragraph is intended
17 to result in the hospital charging any amount for such services in addi-
18 tion to the applicable charge for the maternity inpatient hospital
19 admission.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
21 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
22 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
23 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
24 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04513-03-9
