Bill Text: NY A02957 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires information on possible complications from pregnancy that can lead to death; requires screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-20 - approval memo.65 [A02957 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02957-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2957--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON, THIELE, BICHOTTE, EPSTEIN, D'URSO, SAYEGH, ORTIZ, JAFFEE, GRIFFIN, BARRON, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DE LA ROSA, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- 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. LBD04513-02-9