Bill Text: NY S08726 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8726 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires statistics on maternal deaths, stillbirths and birth related injuries by race to be included in the informational material provided to prospective maternity patients at all hospitals and birth centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-10 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08726 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08726-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8726

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. KAPLAN, BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  statis-
          tics  on  maternal  deaths  and injuries by race to be included in the
          informational material provided to prospective maternity  patients  at
          all hospitals and birth centers

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

     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2 of section  2803-j  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is
     3  amended and a new paragraph (n) is added to read as follows:
     4    (m) whether rooming-in is available in the facility, on the  basis  of
     5  twenty-four hours a day or daytime[.];
     6    (n)  the annual percentage of:  maternal deaths, before, during and up
     7  to six weeks after childbirth; third trimester fetal losses  and  still-
     8  births;  hemorrhage; and injuries related to childbirth including damage
     9  to tissue and organs during cesarean birth and third and  fourth  degree
    10  tearing.  The  information  in  this  paragraph shall be provided with a
    11  racial breakdown on all data points.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16892-03-0