Bill Text: NY A09430 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to maternal depression screenings; requires maternal health care providers providing pre- and postnatal care or pediatric care to the mother's infant to invite the mother to fill out a questionnaire to detect maternal depression.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-07 - print number 9430a [A09430 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09430-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9430--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 3, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. RICHARDSON, ORTIZ, WALKER, BICHOTTE, BLAKE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, HOOPER, HYNDMAN --  read  once
          and  referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to maternal
          depression screenings
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2500-k of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c)  "Questionnaire" means an assessment tool administered by a mater-
     4  nal health care provider or their agent, to detect  maternal  depression
     5  such  as  the  Edinburgh  Postnatal  Depression  Scale,  the  Postpartum
     6  Depression Screening Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory,  the  Patient
     7  Health  Questionnaire, or other validated assessment methods as approved
     8  by the commissioner.
     9    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 2500-k  of  the  public  health  law  is
    10  renumbered  subdivision  4  and  a new subdivision 3 is added to read as
    11  follows:
    12    3. Maternal depression screenings.  (a) Maternal health care providers
    13  providing prenatal care shall at a prenatal visit  offer  each  pregnant
    14  patient  a  questionnaire  for  the purpose of screening the patient for
    15  depression in accordance with national standards.  The  maternal  health
    16  care  provider  shall  provide  treatment  or refer when appropriate, in
    17  accordance with national standards, any woman who test positive  on  the
    18  questionnaire and who consents to such treatment or referral.
    19    (b)  Maternal health providers providing postnatal care to women shall
    20  themselves or through their agents offer a questionnaire for the purpose
    21  of screening the woman for depression. The maternal health care provider
    22  shall provide treatment or refer when appropriate,  in  accordance  with
    23  national  standards,  any  woman who tests positive on the questionnaire
    24  and who consents to such treatment or referral.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (c) Maternal health care providers  providing  pediatric  care  to  an
     2  infant shall themselves or through their agents offer the infant's moth-
     3  er  a  questionnaire  at  any well-child check-up at which the mother is
     4  present prior to the  infant's  first  birthday.  Maternal  health  care
     5  providers  shall  provide treatment or refer when appropriate in accord-
     6  ance with national standards, any woman who tests positive on the  ques-
     7  tionnaire and who consents to such treatment or referral.
     8    (d)  Consent  from  the  mother must be obtained before disclosing the
     9  results of the assessment unless the mother is determined to  present  a
    10  danger to herself or others or unless otherwise authorized by applicable
    11  law or regulations.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    14  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
    15  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    16  authorized  to be made and completed by the commissioner of health on or
    17  before such effective date.