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Assembly Bill A9124

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides maternity patients with information regarding births utilizing forceps

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2021-A9124 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A2433

2021-A9124 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides maternity patients with information regarding births utilizing forceps including any potential injuries the mother or child could sustain due to the use of forceps and statistics on deaths resulting from the use of forceps.

2021-A9124 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9124
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing materni-
   ty patients with information regarding births utilizing forceps
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, 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 RELATING
 TO THE USE OF FORCEPS DURING DELIVERY INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY
 POTENTIAL  INJURIES THE MOTHER OR CHILD COULD SUSTAIN DUE TO SUCH USE OF
 FORCEPS.
   § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 2803-j  of  the  public
 health  law, as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1996, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (e) the annual percentage of births utilizing forceps, listed  on  the
 basis  of  low  forceps delivery and mid forceps delivery, INCLUDING THE
 ANNUAL NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE  OF  TOTAL  DEATHS  RESULTING  FROM  BIRTHS
 UTILIZING FORCEPS;
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14099-01-1

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