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Senate Bill S9662

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to screening for placenta accreta spectrum screenings as part of routine prenatal care

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2025-S9662 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10514
Current Committee:
Senate Women's Issues
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2500-n, Pub Health L

2025-S9662 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to publish guidance for incorporating placenta accreta spectrum screenings into routine prenatal care.

2025-S9662 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9662 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9662
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 1, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 guidance, recom-
   mendations and best practices related to incorporating placenta accre-
   ta spectrum screenings into routine prenatal care
 
   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
 2500-n to read as follows:
   § 2500-N. PLACENTA ACCRETA SPECTRUM SCREENINGS.  1.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF
 THIS  SECTION "PLACENTA ACCRETA SPECTRUM" MEANS A PREGNANCY COMPLICATION
 THAT OCCURS WHEN THE PLACENTA ATTACHES TOO DEEPLY INTO THE WALL  OF  THE
 UTERUS.
   2.  THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH OTHER RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS
 AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER, SHALL PUBLISH GUIDANCE  FOR  INCORPO-
 RATING  PLACENTA ACCRETA SPECTRUM SCREENINGS INTO ROUTINE PRENATAL CARE.
 THIS GUIDANCE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, RECOMMENDATIONS  AND
 BEST PRACTICES RELATED TO:
   (A)  WHEN  A  PHYSICIAN  OR  OTHER AUTHORIZED PRACTITIONER ATTENDING A
 PREGNANT PERSON SHOULD INITIATE PLACENTA ACCRETA SPECTRUM SCREENINGS AND
 HOW OFTEN SUCH SCREENINGS SHOULD BE REPEATED THROUGHOUT PREGNANCY;
   (B) SCREENING FOR RISK FACTORS THAT MAY CONTRIBUTE TO PLACENTA ACCRETA
 SPECTRUM SUCH AS MULTIPLE CESAREAN SECTIONS, PLACENTA  PREVIA,  ADVANCED
 MATERNAL AGE, MULTIPARITY AND PRIOR UTERINE SURGERIES OR CURETTAGE; AND
   (C)  REFERRALS  FOR  APPROPRIATE  FOLLOW-UP EVALUATION, DIAGNOSIS, AND
 TREATMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14949-03-6

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