Assembly Bill A2944

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a maternal mental health workgroup

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
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2023-A2944 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2359
Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9085, S7752

2023-A2944 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of mental health to establish a maternal mental health workgroup to study and issue recommendations related to maternal mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders; identifies underrepresented and vulnerable populations and risk factors in the state for maternal mental health disorders that may occur during pregnancy and through the first postpartum year.

2023-A2944 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2944
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. CLARK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, KELLES, SIMON, JACKSON,
   GLICK, MITAYNES -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Mental
   Health
 
 AN ACT directing the commissioner of mental health to establish a mater-
   nal mental health workgroup to study and issue recommendations related
   to maternal mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxie-
   ty  disorders;  and  providing  for  the repeal of such provision upon
   expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The commissioner of mental health shall establish a mater-
 nal mental health workgroup (referred to in this section as  the  "work-
 group")  within the office of mental health. The workgroup shall consist
 of, at the minimum, the commissioner of mental health  or  his,  her  or
 their  designee,  the  commissioner of the office of children and family
 services or his, her or their designee; the commissioner of the  depart-
 ment  of  health  or  his,  her  or their designee; representatives from
 statewide mental health  organizations;  representatives  from  maternal
 health  care  provider  organizations;  representatives from health care
 provider organizations; representatives from the health insurance indus-
 try; and any additional stakeholders that the commissioners deem  neces-
 sary.  At  least  one-third  of  the  members shall be from historically
 underrepresented communities that are disproportionately impacted by the
 underdiagnoses of maternal mental health disorders.
   § 2.  Workgroup  members  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their
 services  as members of the workgroup, but shall be reimbursed for their
 actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties on the  work
 group.    Reimbursement  shall  allow  for historically underrepresented
 communities to participate wholly in the performance of their duties  on
 the  workgroup by providing, if necessary, reimbursements for reasonable

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04707-01-3
 A. 2944                             2
              

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