Bill Text: NY A01200 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of health to provide information on neonatal abstinence syndrome screening, intervention, and counseling for pregnant women on a department website devoted to advancing women's health initiatives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A01200 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01200-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1200
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
          department of health to provide  information  on  neonatal  abstinence
          syndrome screening, intervention, and counseling for pregnant women on
          a department website devoted to advancing women's health initiatives
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (u) and (v) of subdivision 1 of section  266  of
     2  the  public health law, as added by chapter 342 of the laws of 2014, are
     3  amended and a new paragraph (w) is added to read as follows:
     4    (u) Syphilis screening for  all  pregnant  women  or  other  women  at
     5  increased risk; [and]
     6    (v)  Well-woman  visits  to obtain recommended preventive services[.];
     7  and
     8    (w) Neonatal abstinence syndrome screening,  interventions  and  coun-
     9  seling for pregnant women.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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