What's happening
This bill requires hospitals to provide information on post-pregnancy complications and expands maternal and newborn screening and referral requirements.
Why it matters
Ensures new parents are informed about potentially life-threatening complications. for both mother and newborn by requiring hospitals to distribute updated informational leaflets, potentially leading to earlier recognition and treatment of serious health issues.
Mandates ongoing review and updating of educational materials. in consultation with maternal mortality review boards, helping ensure that the information provided reflects current medical knowledge and best practices.
Expands requirements for hospital screenings and referrals. so that hospitals must provide not only necessary, but also appropriate, maternal and newborn assessments and ensure patients are referred for additional care as needed, which could improve follow-up and overall outcomes for at-risk families.
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Require Pregnancy Risk Warnings
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
15 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Approval memo.65
- Signed chap.718
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.1770
- Substituted for S4637A
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.107
- Rules report cal.107
Show 5 earlier actions
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 2957a
- Amend and recommit to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Disclose Pregnancy Complication Risks
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Velmanette Montgomery
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2957--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON, THIELE, BICHOTTE, EPSTEIN, D'URSO, SAYEGH, ORTIZ, JAFFEE, GRIFFIN, BARRON, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DE LA ROSA, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing information on possible complications from pregnancy; and in relation to screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2803-j of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-e to read as follows:
1-e. The informational leaflet shall also include information on possible complications from pregnancy that can endanger the life or health of the newborn or the mother. The commissioner, in consultation with any state or local government maternal mortality review boards, shall review and update this information as necessary.
§ 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 2803-n of the public health law, as amended by chapter 199 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Maternity care shall also include, at minimum, parent education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, education on maternal depression, education on maternal depression screening and referrals, and the performance of any necessary or appropriate maternal and newborn clinical assessments and screenings and appropriate referrals. Notwithstanding this requirement, nothing in this paragraph is intended to result in the hospital charging any amount for such services in addition to the applicable charge for the maternity inpatient hospital admission.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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