Bill Text: NY A08162 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8162

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes a maternity care coordination program to provide community maternity care providers with training and support with respect to the unique needs of pregnant and postpartum veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-16 - reported referred to ways and means [A08162 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08162-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8162

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to  establishing
          a  maternity  care  coordination  program  for pregnant and postpartum
          veterans

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs  (g) and (h) of subdivision 3 of section 19 of
     2  the veterans' services law are amended and a new paragraph (i) is  added
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (g)  inclusion of the contributions women veterans have made on behalf
     5  of the United  States  and  this  state  on  the  department's  official
     6  website; [and]
     7    (h)  preparation  of  reports on topics including, but not limited to,
     8  the demographics of women veterans, the number of women veterans  listed
     9  by county, and the unique needs of the women veterans population, to the
    10  extent  such information is available, to the commissioner on the status
    11  of women veterans within New York state[.]; and
    12    (i) development and implementation of a  maternity  care  coordination
    13  program,  in  consultation with the United States Department of Veterans
    14  Affairs, to provide community maternity care providers with training and
    15  support with respect to the unique  needs  of  pregnant  and  postpartum
    16  veterans, particularly regarding mental and behavioral health conditions
    17  relating to the service of the veterans in the armed forces.
    18    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.


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