NY State Senate Bill 2021-S3052

Senate Bill S3052

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to including statistics on childbirth complications, fetal loss, and other injuries in information for maternity patients

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2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S8729

2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes statistics on childbirth complications, fetal losses, other injuries and other maternity outcomes in information for maternity patients.

2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3052

SPONSOR: RIVERA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to including statis-
tics on childbirth complications, fetal losses, and other injuries in
information leaflets for maternity patients

 
PURPOSE:

To expand the information hospitals and the Department of Health are
currently required to provide to maternity patients and the public to
include details on maternal outcomes, including deaths and injuries, and
the racial makeup of those outcomes in information leaflets.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: amends subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the Public Health
Law by adding additional requirements to be reported on hospital infor-
mation leaflets for maternity patients relative to birth outcomes,

maternal deaths and racial disparities of those outcomes.

Section 2: provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The United States has the highest maternal death rate among the world's
developed nations, with 26.4 deaths per 100,000 births. While other
countries have been improving, U.S. rates continue to worsen.  It is
estimated that over half of the 700 annual maternal deaths could have
been prevented by better care.  New York State currently ranks 30th out
of 50 states in its maternal death rate. The rate of maternal mortal-
ities in New York has risen from 15.4 per 100,000 live births in
2001-2003 to 19.6 per 100,000 in 2014-2016.

Despite increased attention and focus by policy makers with the creation
of a Maternal Mortality Review Boards and a new law that requires hospi-
tals to have obstetric hemorrhage protocols within the last year, there
continue to be alarming cases in our state of women, particularly women
of color, dying during or following childbirth.  In light of the recent
cases and urgency to bring about real change, women and their families
are asking for more information and transparency. This legislation
requires that more detailed information on maternal outcomes and mater-
nal deaths in addition to their racial disparities at hospitals in New
York States are made available. Transparency often helps shine a light
that can lead to change. New Yorkers deserve nothing less.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-2020: S8729/A10855 Richardson

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3052
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RIVERA,  BIAGGI,  MYRIE, SALAZAR, SANDERS -- 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 including statis-
   tics on childbirth complications, fetal losses, and other injuries  in
   information leaflets for maternity patients
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the public  health  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  62  of  the  laws of 1996 and paragraph (m) as
 amended by chapter 431 of the laws  of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  Such  leaflet shall also include statistics relating to the annual
 percentage of maternity related procedures performed, MATERNAL  OUTCOMES
 AND MATERNAL DEATHS at such hospital or birth center, as provided by the
 commissioner, including but not limited to the following:
   (a)  THE  ANNUAL  NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL DEATHS RESULTING FROM
 COMPLICATIONS DURING CHILDBIRTH, FOR THE PERIOD BETWEEN  CHILDBIRTH  AND
 SIX  WEEKS  AFTER DELIVERY, AND THE TOP SIX COMPLICATIONS FROM PREGNANCY
 AND DELIVERY THAT RESULT IN SUCH DEATHS BROKEN DOWN BY THE AGE AND  RACE
 OF THE MOTHER;
   (B)  THE ANNUAL NUMBER OF THIRD TRIMESTER FETAL LOSSES AND STILLBIRTHS
 OCCURRING THE HOSPITAL OR BIRTH CENTER;
   (C) THE ANNUAL NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF HEMORRHAGES AND INJURIES MOTH-
 ERS SUSTAIN RELATED TO CHILDBIRTH INCLUDING DAMAGE TO TISSUE AND  ORGANS
 DURING  CESAREAN  BIRTH, THIRD AND FOURTH DEGREE TEARING, BROKEN DOWN BY
 THE AGE AND RACE OF THE MOTHER;
   (D) the annual rate of cesarean sections, primary, repeat  and  total,
 performed at such facility;
   [(b)]  (E)  the  annual  percentage  of  women  with previous cesarean
 sections who have had a subsequent successful vaginal birth;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD04630-01-1

 S. 3052                             2
 
   [(c)] (F) the annual percentage of deliveries by midwives;
   [(d)]  (G)  the annual percentage of births utilizing electronic fetal
 monitoring listed on the basis of external and internal;
   [(e)](H) the annual percentage of births utilizing forceps, listed  on
 the basis of low forceps delivery and mid forceps delivery;
   [(f)] (I) the annual percentage of breech births delivered vaginally;
   [(g)] (J) the annual percentage of births utilizing analgesia;
   [(h)] (K) the annual percentage of births utilizing anesthesia includ-
 ing  general,  spinal, epidural, and paracervical listed on the basis of
 vaginal and cesarean births;
   [(i)] (L) the annual  percentage  of  births  utilizing  induction  of
 labor;
   [(j)]  (M)  the  annual percentage of births utilizing augmentation of
 labor;
   [(k)] (N) the annual percentage of vaginal births utilizing  episioto-
 mies;
   [(l)]  (O) whether birthing rooms are available for use in the facili-
 ty;
   [(m)] (P) whether rooming-in is available  in  the  facility,  on  the
 basis of twenty-four hours a day or daytime.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Sponsored By

Gustavo Rivera

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

co-Sponsors

Alessandra Biaggi

Zellnor Myrie

Julia Salazar

James Sanders Jr.

2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3052 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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