Bill Text: NY S01409 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish at least 4 maternal-infant care centers in areas of need for infants suffering from drug withdrawal as a result of in utero exposure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01409 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01409-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1409--B
            Cal. No. 853

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  RIVERA,  BIAGGI, BROUK, HINCHEY, KAPLAN, MANNION,
          MAY, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be
          committed  to  the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee
          on Health in accordance with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  reported  favorably  from  said committee and
          committed to the Committee on Finance -- reported favorably from  said
          committee,  ordered  to  first  and  second  report, amended on second
          report, ordered to a third reading, and to be  reprinted  as  amended,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
          maternal-infant care centers pilot  program;  and  providing  for  the
          repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          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  2509-d to read as follows:
     3    §  2509-d. Maternal-infant care centers pilot program.  There shall be
     4  established a maternal-infant care centers  pilot  program  whereby  the
     5  commissioner,   in  consultation  with  the  commissioner  of  addiction
     6  services and supports, shall certify or designate at least  four  mater-
     7  nal-infant  care  centers  in  areas  of need in the state. Such centers
     8  shall provide cost effective, necessary services and enhance the quality
     9  of care for targeted populations in order to demonstrate the  effective-
    10  ness  of  such  program. Eligible infants shall be under one year of age
    11  and be experiencing withdrawal  resulting  from  in  utero  exposure  to
    12  drugs. Such infant withdrawal may be the result of conditions including,
    13  but  not  limited  to,  neonatal  abstinence syndrome or neonatal opioid
    14  withdrawal syndrome. The program shall provide more appropriate settings
    15  and cost effective care for these infants  than  hospitals,  while  also
    16  providing  supports  and  services  to  parents preparing to bring their

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06826-06-2
        S. 1409--B                          2

     1  infants home. Access to such supports shall continue for a period  after
     2  the  infant  has  left a center.   The program shall implement evidence-
     3  based practices shown to reduce the length  of  stay  when  compared  to
     4  standard  neonatal  intensive care unit care and support family unifica-
     5  tion when the  practices  are  clinically  appropriate  for  the  family
     6  receiving  services. The evidence-based practices shall include, but not
     7  be limited to, rooming-in, encouraging breastfeeding, providing    trau-
     8  ma-informed  care  to  the parent-infant dyad, and evaluating the social
     9  determinants of health.  Neither  a  diagnosis  of  neonatal  abstinence
    10  syndrome  or  neonatal  opioid  withdrawal  syndrome, nor admission to a
    11  maternal-infant care center, shall constitute evidence of child abuse or
    12  maltreatment, or, by itself, justify  a  report  to  the  state  central
    13  register of child abuse and maltreatment.
    14    The department shall be responsible for monitoring the quality, appro-
    15  priateness  and  effectiveness  of  the  centers and shall report to the
    16  legislature within one year of the establishment of the  maternal-infant
    17  care  centers  and  again within two years of the effective date of this
    18  section on the program's effectiveness.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall expire  and  be
    20  deemed repealed 4 years after such date.