Bill Text: NY S05048 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring maternity patients and the other parent of a newborn child to be educated in safe sleeping practices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05048 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05048-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5048
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 29, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
         tals  and  birth  centers  to request each maternity patient and other
         parent of a newborn to view a  video  presentation  on  safe  sleeping
         practices for newborns
         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,  as  amended  by
    2  chapter  62  of the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision
    3  1-d to read as follows:
    4    1-D. THE INFORMATIONAL LEAFLET SHALL ALSO INCLUDE  AN  EXPLANATION  OF
    5  UNSAFE  SLEEPING  PRACTICES  INCLUDING  THE POTENTIAL FATAL CONSEQUENCES
    6  FROM SUCH UNSAFE SLEEPING PRACTICES AND RECOMMENDED SAFE SLEEPING  PRAC-
    7  TICES.  THE  LEAFLET  SHALL  INCLUDE STATISTICS CONCERNING THE NUMBER OF
    8  DEATHS OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN EACH YEAR SUSPECTED OR KNOWN TO BE CAUSED
    9  BY UNSAFE SLEEPING PRACTICES. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CAUSE A  SUFFICIENT
   10  NUMBER OF SUCH LEAFLETS TO BE PRODUCED TO ALLOW PARENTS OF NEWBORN CHIL-
   11  DREN  TO TAKE A LEAFLET HOME WITH THEM. THE LEAFLET SHALL BE MADE AVAIL-
   12  ABLE IN LANGUAGES BEST DESIGNED TO CONVEY THE INFORMATION TO THE PARENTS
   13  WHO RECEIVE MATERNITY RELATED SERVICES  AT  SUCH  HOSPITAL  OR  BIRTHING
   14  CENTER.
   15    S 2. Section 2803-j of the public health law, as amended by chapter 62
   16  of the laws of 1996, is amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as
   17  follows:
   18    7.  EVERY  HOSPITAL AND BIRTH CENTER SHALL REQUEST THAT EACH MATERNITY
   19  PATIENT AND OTHER PARENT, IF AVAILABLE, OF A NEWBORN CHILD, VIEW A VIDEO
   20  PRESENTATION, APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER, ON UNSAFE SLEEPING PRACTICES
   21  INCLUDING, BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO,  THE  DANGERS  OF  CO-SLEEPING  WITH  A
   22  NEWBORN,  INFANT  OR  CHILD,  THE POTENTIAL FATAL CONSEQUENCES FROM SUCH
   23  UNSAFE SLEEPING PRACTICES AND RECOMMENDED SAFE SLEEPING  PRACTICES.  THE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01717-01-5
       S. 5048                             2
    1  VIDEO  SHALL  INCLUDE  STATISTICS  CONCERNING  THE  NUMBER  OF DEATHS OF
    2  INFANTS AND CHILDREN EACH YEAR SUSPECTED OR KNOWN TO BE CAUSED BY UNSAFE
    3  SLEEPING PRACTICES. AFTER VIEWING SUCH  A  VIDEO  PRESENTATION  OR  UPON
    4  REFUSAL  TO VIEW SUCH A VIDEO PRESENTATION, THE HOSPITAL OR BIRTH CENTER
    5  SHALL REQUEST THAT SUCH PATIENT AND/OR OTHER PARENT SIGN A FORM  STATING
    6  THAT  THEY  HAVE  VIEWED OR REFUSED TO VIEW SUCH VIDEO PRESENTATION. ALL
    7  TRAINING MATERIALS AND FORMS REQUIRED TO  IMPLEMENT  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
    8  THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
    9    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   10  it shall have become a law.