Bill Text: NY A09648 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-08 - print number 9648a [A09648 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09648-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9648--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 27, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        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:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  206-c to read as follows:
     3    §  206-c.  Special powers to issue standing orders for doula services.
     4  Notwithstanding section sixty-five hundred thirty of the education  law,
     5  the  commissioner  shall issue a non-patient specific statewide standing
     6  order for the provision of doula services for  pregnant,  birthing,  and
     7  postpartum individuals through twelve months postpartum.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14106-04-4