Bill Text: NY A01594 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the departments of health and mental hygiene to create a pamphlet of mental health resources for those who have suffered a pregnancy loss, including, but not limited to, a miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion; requires providers to give patients an adequate supply of menstrual products upon discharge to help with their aftercare.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01594 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01594-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1594

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the  mental  hygiene  law,  in
          relation  to requiring the departments of health and mental hygiene to
          create a pamphlet of  mental  health  resources  for  those  who  have
          suffered a pregnancy loss

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2997-f-2 to read as follows:
     3    § 2997-f-2. Provision of information related to mental health services
     4  for  those  who  have  suffered  a pregnancy loss. 1. The department, in
     5  conjunction with the office of mental health, shall develop and distrib-
     6  ute to health care practitioners a pamphlet of mental  health  resources
     7  for  patients  who  have  suffered  a  pregnancy loss, including but not
     8  limited to, a miscarriage, stillbirth or abortion.
     9    2. Health care practitioners  shall  provide  the  pamphlet  developed
    10  pursuant  to  this  section  to  patients  during  the first appointment
    11  following such patient's pregnancy loss.
    12    § 2. Section 2997-b of the public health law, as added by chapter  477
    13  of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    14    §  2997-b.  Pamphlet  of  department  programs. The commissioner shall
    15  develop and transmit to physicians in the state a pamphlet describing  a
    16  variety of department programs and initiatives, including but not limit-
    17  ed  to  smoking  cessation  programs,  public health insurance programs,
    18  health and quality improvement information, the patient  safety  center,
    19  mental  health resources for patients who have suffered a pregnancy loss
    20  and physician profiles. Each physician practicing  in  the  state  shall
    21  make  the  pamphlet  available in [his or her] such physician's practice
    22  reception area so that it is accessible to patients.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1594                             2

     1    § 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 267-a to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  267-a.  Sanitary napkins; pregnancy loss. Every health care practi-
     4  tioner required to provide the pamphlet developed  pursuant  to  section
     5  twenty-nine  hundred  ninety-seven-f-two  of  this  chapter to a patient
     6  shall provide to such patient an adequate supply of sanitary napkins  to
     7  assist with such patient's after care. For the purposes of this section,
     8  "adequate supply" means an amount of sanitary napkins sufficient for use
     9  by the patient for seven days following such patient's discharge.
    10    § 4. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 7.50 to
    11  read as follows:
    12  § 7.50 Provision  of  information  related to mental health services for
    13           those who have suffered a pregnancy loss.
    14    The office, in conjunction with the department of health, shall devel-
    15  op a pamphlet of mental health resources for patients who have  suffered
    16  a  pregnancy  loss,  including but not limited to, a miscarriage, still-
    17  birth or abortion in accordance with sections twenty-nine hundred  nine-
    18  ty-seven-b  and  twenty-nine  hundred  ninety-seven-f-two  of the public
    19  health law.
    20    § 5. 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.