Bill Text: NY S08395 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-26 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08395 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08395-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8395

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- 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  directing  the
          commissioner  of  health  to  issue a statewide standing order for the
          provision of doula services

          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  206-c to read as follows:
     3    § 206-c. Special powers to issue standing orders for  doula  services.
     4  Notwithstanding  section sixty-five hundred thirty of the education law,
     5  the commissioner shall issue a non-patient specific  statewide  standing
     6  order  for  the  provision of doula services for pregnant, birthing, and
     7  postpartum individuals through twelve months postpartum.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14106-03-4