Bill Text: NY S05992 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires maternal health care facilities provide expecting and new mothers access to their doulas.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-23 - returned to senate [S05992 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05992-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5992--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, ADDABBO, FERNANDEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to permitting expect- ing and new mothers' access to their doulas 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 2500-m to read as follows: 3 § 2500-m. Access to doulas. When a person is admitted to a maternal 4 health care facility for delivery and/or inpatient care post-delivery, 5 such person may designate a doula to have access to such person. The 6 maternal health care facility shall not deny such person access to such 7 person's designated doula. For the purposes of this section, the term 8 "maternal health care facility" shall mean a hospital or freestanding 9 birthing center providing perinatal services in accordance with article 10 twenty-eight of this chapter and applicable regulations. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10180-03-3
