Senate Bill S8375

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act to require hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program

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


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8375 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8833
Current Committee:
Senate Women's Issues
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 25 Title 9 §§2599-e - 2599-i, amd §§2803-n & 4141, Pub Health L

2023-S8375 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act to require hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health care providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; requires hospitals to provide expectant mothers with written information regarding certain patient rights; requires information related to pregnancy, if known, to be included on death certificates.

2023-S8375 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8375 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8375
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BRISPORT -- 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  hospi-
   tals  and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an
   evidence-based implicit bias program, to providing  expectant  mothers
   with  written  information  regarding  certain  patient rights, and to
   including information related to pregnancy on death certificates
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new title 9 to read as follows:
                                  TITLE IX
             NEW YORK DIGNITY IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH ACT
 SECTION 2599-E. SHORT TITLE.
         2599-F. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.
         2599-G. DEFINITIONS.
         2599-H. IMPLICIT BIAS PROGRAM.
         2599-I. DATA COLLECTION.
   § 2599-E. SHORT TITLE. THIS TITLE SHALL BE KNOWN AND MAY BE  CITED  AS
 THE "NEW YORK DIGNITY IN PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH ACT".
   §  2599-F. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. 1. EVERY PERSON SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO
 DIGNITY AND RESPECT DURING AND AFTER PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH.  PATIENTS
 SHOULD  RECEIVE THE BEST CARE POSSIBLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, GENDER,
 AGE, CLASS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER  IDENTITY,  DISABILITY,  LANGUAGE
 PROFICIENCY,  NATIONALITY,  IMMIGRATION  STATUS,  GENDER  EXPRESSION, OR
 RELIGION.
   2.  WHILE MATERNAL HEALTH CONTINUES TO MAKE  GREAT  STRIDES  GLOBALLY,
 THE  UNITED STATES IS ONE OF THE ONLY NATIONS IN THE WORLD THAT HAS SEEN
 AN INCREASE IN MATERNAL MORTALITY OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES.  TODAY,
 THE  UNITED STATES HAS THE HIGHEST MATERNAL MORTALITY RATE IN THE DEVEL-
 OPED  WORLD.    ACCORDING  TO  THE  CENTERS  FOR  DISEASE  CONTROL   AND
 PREVENTION,  MORE  THAN  ONE  THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED WOMEN DIE OF MATERNAL
 CASES EACH YEAR, AND ANOTHER FIFTY THOUSAND SUFFER FROM  SEVERE  COMPLI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13847-02-3
              

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