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Assembly Bill A5309

2025-2026 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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2025-A5309 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §206-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9648

2025-A5309 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A5309 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5309
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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  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.
                                                            LBD08158-01-5

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