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Assembly Bill A9648A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to directing the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services

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2023-A9648 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8395
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §206-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A5309

2023-A9648 - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services.

2023-A9648 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9648
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  authorizing  the
   commissioner  of  health  to  issue a statewide standing order for the
   provision of doula services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 206 of the public
 health  law, as added by chapter 602 of the laws of 2007, is amended and
 a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows:
   (d) assess  civil  penalties  against  a  public  water  system  which
 provides  water  to  the  public  for human consumption through pipes or
 other constructed conveyances, as further defined in the state  sanitary
 code  or,  in  the  case  of  mass  gatherings,  the person who holds or
 promotes the mass gathering as defined in subdivision  five  of  section
 two  hundred twenty-five of this article not to exceed twenty-five thou-
 sand dollars per day, for each violation of or failure  to  comply  with
 any term or provision of the state sanitary code as it relates to public
 water  systems  that serve a population of five thousand or more persons
 or any mass gatherings, which penalty may be assessed after a hearing or
 an opportunity to be heard[.];
   (E) NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE EDUCATION
 LAW, ISSUE A NON-PATIENT  SPECIFIC  STATEWIDE  STANDING  ORDER  FOR  THE
 PROVISION OF DOULA SERVICES FOR PREGNANT, BIRTHING, AND POSTPARTUM INDI-
 VIDUALS THROUGH TWELVE MONTHS POSTPARTUM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14106-01-4

2023-A9648A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8395
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §206-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A5309

2023-A9648A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services.

2023-A9648A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9648--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- 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 directing the
   commissioner of health to issue a statewide  standing  order  for  the
   provision of doula services

   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
 206-c to read as follows:
   §  206-C.  SPECIAL POWERS TO ISSUE STANDING ORDERS FOR DOULA SERVICES.
 NOTWITHSTANDING SECTION SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE EDUCATION  LAW,
 THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL ISSUE A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC STATEWIDE STANDING
 ORDER FOR THE PROVISION OF DOULA SERVICES FOR  PREGNANT,  BIRTHING,  AND
 POSTPARTUM INDIVIDUALS THROUGH TWELVE MONTHS POSTPARTUM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14106-04-4

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