Bill Text: NY S06657 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-01 - PRINT NUMBER 6657A [S06657 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06657-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6657--A IN SENATE February 3, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 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. 25 (c) Maternal health care providers providing pediatric care to an 26 infant shall themselves or through their agents offer the infant's moth- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13780-04-6S. 6657--A 2 1 er a questionnaire at any well-child check-up at which the mother is 2 present prior to the infant's first birthday. Maternal health care 3 providers shall provide treatment or refer when appropriate in accord- 4 ance with national standards, any woman who tests positive on the ques- 5 tionnaire and who consents to such treatment or referral. 6 (d) Consent from the mother must be obtained before disclosing the 7 results of the assessment unless the mother is determined to present a 8 danger to herself or others or unless otherwise authorized by applicable 9 law or regulations. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate- 12 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 13 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 14 authorized to be made and completed by the commissioner of health on or 15 before such effective date.
