NY State Senate Bill 2017-S7622A

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Jun 19, 2018	referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1948 committee discharged and committed to rules
Jun 14, 2018	print number 7622a
Jun 14, 2018	amend (t) and recommit to health
Jan 31, 2018	referred to health

Votes

- Jun 19, 2018 - Floor Vote
  S7622A
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 19, 2018
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Mayer
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      nay (1)
      
      Little
      
      excused (1)
      
      Croci
  Jun 19, 2018 - Rules Committee Vote
  S7622A
  
  23
  
  Aye
  
  1
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 19, 2018
      
      aye (23)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hannon
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      nay (1)
      
      Little
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Griffo

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

co-Sponsors

2017-S7622 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9733
Current Committee:: Assembly Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§2803-j & 2803-n, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S4637, A2957

2017-S7622 - Summary

Requires information on possible complications from pregnancy that can lead to death; requires screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy.

2017-S7622 - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7622

SPONSOR: ALCANTARA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to maternal mortality
reporting and advancement of best practices; and in relation to provid-
ing information on possible complications from pregnancy

 
PURPOSE:

To ensure that the Department of Health is taking steps to lower the
State's maternal mortality rate by mandating more transparent reporting
of maternal deaths, developing evidence-based procedures that maternal
care providers should adopt to prevent maternal mortality, and by ensur-
ing that pregnant women and new mothers receive information on compli-
cations that could lead to death.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill amends the public health law to create a new

section 2509. This section mandates that the department of health work
with experts and stakeholders to develop evidence-based procedures to
lower maternal mortality and then work to ensure the adoption of those
procedures by providers. The Department will have to issue annual
reports on maternal mortality in the state, the procedures created to
lower maternal mortality, the rate of adoption of these new procedures,
and the effect the procedures have had to lower maternal mortality. The
state shall also now provide data on maternal mortality disaggregated by
race or ethnicity and county.

Section 2 amends § 2803-j of the public health law to mandate that leaf-
lets provided to maternity patients include information about serious
complications that could lead to death.

Section 3 amends § 2803-n to ensure that the parental information
include information on screenings for conditions identified to present
serious threats to the health of mothers in the first year after preg-
nancy.

Section 4 establishes an effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Since the year 2000, the maternal mortality rate in the United States as
a whole has increased from a rate of 19 deaths per every 100,000 births
to 24 per every 100,000 births. In New York State, the rate according to
the Department of Health was 25 deaths per 100,000 births in 2015 and in
New York City the rate was an alarming 31 deaths per 100,000 births.
Both of these rates were an increase from the rate the state and city
experienced in 2006. The sad fact that maternal mortality rates in the
United States and New York have been on the increase while the rest of
the world as a whole continues to see declines is shameful.

In addition, the scourge of maternal mortality does not affect all women
the same. African American women suffer from maternal mortality at much
higher rates that women on other races in this country, and yet health
authorities have not collected the necessary data to explain and correct
this horrible disparity.
The reality is that New York can take steps to change this shameful
trajectory. The state of California has been able to avoid this national
trend and in fact has seen its maternal mortality rate decline signif-
icantly thanks to the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative,
which has created a number of new treatment procedures that providers in
California have started to use and that have had a demonstrably positive
effect in lowering maternal mortality. New York should follow this path
and take active steps to improve maternal care in ways that will save
women's lives. The Department of Health should lead the way and work
with experts to create procedures to lower our maternal mortality rate.
The department also needs to ensure that we track the disparities in
maternal mortality between different populations in the State and make
these disparities public, to ensure public awareness and build the data
sets that researchers will need to discover solutions.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New legislation.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Fiscal implications to be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect 90 days after it has become a law. Effective
immediately, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
lation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
date.

2017-S7622 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7622
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- 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 maternal mortality
   reporting  and  advancement  of  best  practices;  and  in relation to
   providing information on possible complications from pregnancy

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2509 to read as follows:
   § 2509. MATERNAL MORTALITY REPORTING AND  ADVANCEMENT  OF  BEST  PRAC-
 TICES.  1.  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "MATERNAL MORTALITY"
 MEANS THE CESSATION OF RESPIRATION AND CIRCULATION FOR A WOMAN DURING OR
 UP TO A YEAR FROM THE END OF PREGNANCY, FROM ANY  CAUSE  RELATED  TO  OR
 AGGRAVATED BY THE PREGNANCY OR ITS MANAGEMENT.
   2.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  WORK  WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND EXPERTS IN THE
 STATE AND OTHER STATES TO EXAMINE PROCEDURES FOUND  TO  REDUCE  MATERNAL
 MORTALITY RATES, AND BASED ON ITS FINDINGS DEVELOP EVIDENCE-BASED QUALI-
 TY  IMPROVEMENT PROCEDURES THAT MATERNAL CARE PROVIDERS CAN IMPLEMENT TO
 PREVENT MATERNAL MORTALITY.
   3. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL WORK WITH PROVIDERS TO ENSURE THE ADOPTION  OF
 PROCEDURES  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION AND SHALL TRACK
 THE PERCENTAGE OF MATERNAL CARE PROVIDERS THAT HAVE ADOPTED SUCH  PROCE-
 DURES.
   4.  NO  LATER  THAN NOVEMBER THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, AND NOT
 LATER THAN NOVEMBER THIRTIETH ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, THE DEPARTMENT  SHALL
 SUBMIT  TO  THE  GOVERNOR, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE TEMPORARY
 PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE RESPECTIVE CHAIRPERSONS OF THE  ASSEMBLY
 AND SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEES A REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF
 PROCEDURES  TO  REDUCE MATERNAL MORTALITY, THE RATE OF ADOPTION OF THESE
 PROCEDURES BY PROVIDERS IN THE STATE, AND THE  EFFECT  THESE  PROCEDURES
 HAVE HAD ON THE MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE IN THE STATE.
   5.  THE REPORT SHALL INCLUDE DATA AVAILABLE REGARDING MATERNAL MORTAL-
 ITY IN THE STATE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD14469-01-8

 S. 7622                             2
 
   (A) THE NUMBER OF  MATERNAL  MORTALITIES,  DISAGGREGATED  BY  RACE  OR
 ETHNICITY AND COUNTY; AND
   (B)  THE  MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO, DISAGGREGATED BY RACE OR ETHNICITY
 AND COUNTY WHERE AVAILABLE AND STATISTICALLY RELIABLE.
   6. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PUBLISH THE DISAGGREGATED  MATERNAL  MORTALITY
 DATA  COLLECTED  PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION AS PART OF
 ITS MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH INDICATORS, TO THE EXTENT  SUCH  DATA  IS
 AVAILABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1-b of section 2803-j of the public health law, as
 amended by chapter 199 of the laws  of  2014,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1-b. The informational leaflet shall also include information relating
 to  the  physical  and  mental  health  of  the  maternity patient after
 discharge from the hospital, including, but not limited to,  information
 about maternal depression AND INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS FROM
 PREGNANCY  THAT  CAN  LEAD TO DEATH.  The commissioner, in collaboration
 with the commissioner of mental health,  shall  review  and  update  the
 information  on  maternal depression contained in the leaflet, as neces-
 sary. The informational leaflets shall be made available to patients  in
 the top six languages spoken in the state, other than English, according
 to the latest available data from the United States Census Bureau.
   §  3.  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 mater-
 nal  depression,  education  on maternal depression screening and refer-
 rals, INCLUDING SCREENINGS AND REFERRALS TO IDENTIFY CONDITIONS  IDENTI-
 FIED  AS  PRESENTING  A  SERIOUS THREAT TO THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER IN THE
 YEAR AFTER PREGNANCY, and the performance of any necessary maternal  and
 newborn  clinical assessments. 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.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth 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.

co-Sponsors

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9733
Current Committee:: Assembly Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§2803-j & 2803-n, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S4637, A2957

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires information on possible complications from pregnancy that can lead to death; requires screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy.

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7622A

SPONSOR: ALCANTARA
 
TITLE OF BILL:  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

 
PURPOSE:

To ensure that the Department of Health is taking steps to lower the
State's maternal mortality rate by ensuring that pregnant women and new
mothers receive information on complications that could lead to death.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends § 2803-j of the public health law to mandate that leaf-
lets provided to maternity patients include information about serious
complications that could lead to death. The commissioner shall consult
with any official boards mandated to review an investigate maternal
mortality to ensure that information is correct and up to date.

Section 2 amends § 2803-n to ensure that the parental information
include information on screenings for conditions identified to present
serious threats to the health of mothers in the first year after preg-
nancy.

Section 3 establishes an effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Since the year 2000, the maternal mortality rate in the United States as
a whole has increased from a rate of 19 deaths per every 100,000 births
to 24 per every 100,000 births. In New York State, the rate according to
the Department of Health was 25 deaths per 100,000 births in 2015 and in
New York City the rate was an alarming 31 deaths per 100,000 births.
Both of these rates were an increase from the rate the state and city
experienced in 2006. The sad fact that maternal mortality rates in the
United States and New York have been on the increase while the rest of
the world as a whole continues to see declines is shameful.

In addition, the scourge of maternal mortality does not affect all women
the same. African American women suffer from maternal mortality at much
higher rates that women on other races in this country, and yet health
authorities have not collected the necessary data to explain and correct
this horrible disparity.

The reality is that New York can take steps to change this shameful
trajectory. One basic step needed is to ensure that pregnant women and
new mothers are provided with information about issues and complications
that may seem benign but could in fact lead to maternal mortality. The
state already mandates that several types of information be provided to
pregnant women and new mothers and this bill would add information about
issues that can lead to maternal death to the types of information that
must be provided to the public.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New legislation.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Fiscal implications to be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect 90 days after it has become a law.  Effective
immediately, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
lation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
date.

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7622--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. ALCANTARA, HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed,  and  when  printed  to be committed 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 informa-
   tion  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  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1-b of section 2803-j of the public health law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  199 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1-b. The informational leaflet shall also include information relating
 to the physical  and  mental  health  of  the  maternity  patient  after
 discharge  from the hospital, including, but not limited to, information
 about maternal depression AND INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS FROM
 PREGNANCY THAT CAN LEAD TO DEATH.   The commissioner,  in  collaboration
 with  the  commissioner  of  mental  health, shall review and update the
 information on maternal depression contained in the leaflet,  as  neces-
 sary.  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH OFFICIAL BOARDS IN THE
 STATE RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEWING AND  INVESTIGATING  CAUSES  OF  MATERNAL
 MORTALITY,  SHALL  REVIEW AND UPDATE THE INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE COMPLI-
 CATIONS FROM PREGNANCY THAT CAN LEAD TO DEATH, AS NECESSARY. The  infor-
 mational  leaflets  shall  be  made available to patients in the top six
 languages spoken in the state, other  than  English,  according  to  the
 latest available data from the United States Census Bureau.
   §  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 mater-
 nal  depression,  education  on maternal depression screening and refer-
 rals, INCLUDING SCREENINGS AND REFERRALS TO IDENTIFY CONDITIONS  IDENTI-
 FIED  AS  PRESENTING  A  SERIOUS THREAT TO THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER IN THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14469-05-8

 S. 7622--A                          2
 
 YEAR AFTER PREGNANCY, and the performance of any necessary maternal  and
 newborn  clinical assessments. 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 ninetieth 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.

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Senate Bill S7622A

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Jun 19, 2018 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: Jun 19, 2018

Jun 19, 2018 - Rules Committee Vote

Rules Committee Vote: Jun 19, 2018

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2017-S7622 - Details

2017-S7622 - Summary

2017-S7622 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7622 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Marisol Alcantara

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

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co-Sponsors

Jesse Hamilton

2017-S7622 - Details

2017-S7622 - Summary

2017-S7622 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7622 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Jesse Hamilton

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7622A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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