NY State Senate Bill S3610

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Feb 01, 2023	referred to women's issues

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S3610 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5576
Current Committee:: Senate Women's Issues
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S8726
2021-2022: S534, A4598

S3610 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain information about the facility and what types of plans and procedures such facility has in place to be provided to prospective maternity patients.

S3610 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

 
BILL NUMBER: S3610

SPONSOR: WEBB
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
information about the facility to be included in the informational mate-
rial provided to prospective maternity patients at all hospitals and
birth centers

 
PURPOSE:

This legislation would require certain information about the facility to
be included in the informational material provided to prospective mater-
nity patients at all hospitals and birth centers.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 adds a new paragraph (n) to Subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of
the Public Health Law. This new language requires information related to
the conduct of safety drills, whether a facility participates in quality
improvement initiatives, whether an agreement has a policy to arrange

emergency transfer if care for critically ill pregnant people/infants,
whether a facility has a written community needs assessment plan to
reduce racial disparities and address community needs, whether an autop-
sy is available upon request for stillbirth, and if bereavement services
are offered.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation seeks to provide information and to increase transpar-
ency as it relates to the racial disparities of pregnancy and birth
outcomes. Further this bill seeks to expand on an already existing law
that is aimed at presenting important information to prospective moth-
ers. There is significant evidence that expectant mothers in minority
communities are presented with limited options for prenatal care and
childbirth, we need to provide information to expectant mothers that
will help them make an informed decision.  Statistics have presented
that black women are at least three times more likely to die from preg-
nancy and birth related complications and are 50% more likely to suffer
severe pregnancy and birth complications.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.534 of 2021; Passed Senate in 2021 & 2022

S.8726 of 2020; Referred to Senate Rules Committee

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 23 it
shall have become a law.

S3610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3610
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  certain
   information  about  the  facility  to be included in the informational
   material provided to prospective maternity patients at  all  hospitals
   and birth centers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2 of section  2803-j  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is
 amended and six new paragraphs (n), (o), (p), (q), (r) and (s) are added
 to read as follows:
   (m) whether rooming-in is available in the facility, on the  basis  of
 twenty-four hours a day or daytime[.];
   (N) WHETHER THE FACILITY CONDUCTS SAFETY DRILLS TO PREPARE FOR OBSTET-
 RIC EMERGENCIES;
   (O)  WHETHER  THE  FACILITY PARTICIPATES IN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITI-
 ATIVES;
   (P) WHETHER THE FACILITY HAS AN AGREEMENT AND POLICY  TO  ARRANGE  FOR
 EMERGENT  TRANSFER OF CARE FOR CRITICALLY ILL PREGNANT PEOPLE/INFANTS TO
 HIGHER LEVELS OF CARE (APPLICABLE ONLY FOR THOSE FACILITIES THAT ARE NOT
 THE DESIGNATED REGIONAL PERINATAL CENTER OR  A  QUATERNARY  OR  TERTIARY
 CARE CENTER WITH LEVEL III-IV NICU);
   (Q) WHETHER THE FACILITY HAS A WRITTEN COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT PLAN
 TO REDUCE RACIAL DISPARITIES AND ADDRESS COMMUNITY NEEDS;
   (R)  WHETHER THE FACILITY OFFERS, UPON PATIENT REQUEST, AN AUTOPSY FOR
 STILLBIRTH; AND
   (S) WHETHER THE FACILITY OFFERS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT FOR PATIENTS  THAT
 HAVE SUFFERED A STILLBIRTH OR THIRD TRIMESTER FETAL LOSS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02346-01-3

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Lea Webb

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Women's Issues Committee

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