Bill Text: NY S07753 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of mental health and the department of health to conduct a study on the disparate impacts regarding postpartum depression screening tests and to prepare and submit a report of findings and recommendations to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the senate and assembly minority leaders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-19 - SIGNED CHAP.384 [S07753 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07753-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7753

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to require the office of mental  health  and  the  department  of
          health  to conduct a study on the disparate impacts regarding postpar-
          tum depression screening tests

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  1.  The  office of mental health, in conjunction with the
     2  department of health and any other  department  or  experts  within  the
     3  maternal  health field shall conduct a comprehensive study and prepare a
     4  report on the differential impacts of  postpartum  depression  screening
     5  measures  in  relation  to black women, brown women and birthing people.
     6  This study shall examine what additional questions  or  tools  could  be
     7  implemented  to  minimize disparities found within the current screening
     8  protocols. The data collected shall only be utilized as authorized under
     9  state and federal law to inform  the  state's  efforts  to  advance  the
    10  maternal health scope for birthing people, in relation to providing fair
    11  and equal medical care.
    12    2. The purpose of this study shall be to:
    13    (a)  identify  any  racial  disparities within protocols and screening
    14  measures for postpartum depression; and
    15    (b) review current protocols and screening measures used  to  identify
    16  postpartum depression and overall birthing people's health after birth.
    17    3.  This study shall research and identify questions to be used within
    18  postpartum depression screenings to detect, at a minimum, the following:
    19    (a) stress around food scarcity within the home;
    20    (b) financial stressors;
    21    (c) quality of sleep;
    22    (d) quality of health;
    23    (e) substance abuse issues;
    24    (f) additional maternal depression disorders, including but not limit-
    25  ed to perinatal and postpartum mood disorders, postpartum anxiety, post-
    26  partum psychosis;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13720-03-2
        S. 7753                             2

     1    (g) symptoms of isolation,  including  but  not  limited  to  symptoms
     2  caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; and
     3    (h)  different family structures and possible causes of stressors that
     4  could result from such family structures.
     5    4. Not later than one year after the effective date of this  act,  the
     6  commissioners  of  the  office of mental health and department of health
     7  shall prepare and submit to the   governor, the temporary  president  of
     8  the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the assembly, the minority leader of the
     9  senate and the minority leader of the assembly, a report of the  study's
    10  findings, together with specific recommendations for minimizing existing
    11  barriers  and maximizing new techniques and tests to better aid postpar-
    12  tum depression testing and other maternal health testing and/or  screen-
    13  ing.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.