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Assembly Bill A2704

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires maternity patients are supplied with an immunization schedule and recommendations for newborns

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2025-A2704 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L

2025-A2704 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires maternity patients are supplied with an immunization schedule and recommendations for newborns.

2025-A2704 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2704
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring materni-
   ty patients are supplied with an immunization schedule and recommenda-
   tions for newborns
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2803-j of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 382 of the laws of 2022,  is  amended  and  a  new
 subdivision 1-f is added to read as follows:
   1. The commissioner shall require that every hospital and birth center
 shall  prepare in printed or photocopied form and distribute at the time
 of pre-booking directly to each  prospective  maternity  patient,  EVERY
 MATERNITY  PATIENT  THAT  IS  CARED  FOR AND DISCHARGED BY A HOSPITAL OR
 BIRTH CENTER, and, upon request, to the general public an  informational
 leaflet.  Such  leaflet  shall be designed by the commissioner and shall
 contain brief definitions of maternity related procedures and  practices
 as  specified in subdivision two of this section and such other material
 as deemed appropriate by the commissioner. Hospitals and  birth  centers
 may  also elect to distribute additional explanatory material along with
 the maternity patients informational  leaflet.  The  commissioner  shall
 make  the  information contained in the leaflet available on the depart-
 ment's website and shall  present  all  annual  statistical  information
 compiled  pursuant  to  subdivision three of this section on the depart-
 ment's website for the most recent five years for  which  such  data  is
 available.
   1-F. THE INFORMATION LEAFLET SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE IMMUNIZATION SCHE-
 DULE  AND  RECOMMENDATIONS  FOR NEWBORNS ESTABLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.

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