Bill Text: NJ A1077 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DOH to develop and implement plan to improve access to perinatal mood and anxiety disorder screening.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-10 - Substituted by S705 (1R) [A1077 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A1077-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 1077

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex)

Assemblywoman  VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE

District 37 (Bergen)

Assemblywoman  JOANN DOWNEY

District 11 (Monmouth)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Houghtaling and Assemblywoman Timberlake

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires DOH to develop and implement plan to improve access to postpartum depression screening.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning mental health and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  The Department of Health shall develop and implement a plan to improve access to postpartum depression screening, referral, treatment, and support services. 

     b.    The plan shall provide strategies to:

     (1)   increase awareness among mental health care service providers who treat women experiencing postpartum depression with regard to the prevalence and effects of postpartum depression on women and children;

     (2)   establish a referral network of mental health care providers and support services for women who are in need of postpartum depression treatment;

     (3)   increase women's access to formal and informal peer support services, including access to certified peer specialists who have received training related to postpartum depression;

     (4)   raise public awareness for, and reduce the stigma related to, postpartum depression; and

     (5)   provide available funds to postpartum depression screening, referral, treatment, and support services.

 

     2.    The Commissioner of Health shall adopt rules and regulations, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), as are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.

 

     3.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Department of Health (department) to develop and implement a plan to improve access to postpartum depression screening.

     Under the bill, the department is to develop and implement a plan to improve access to postpartum depression screening, referral, treatment, and support services.  The plan is to provide strategies to: (1) increase awareness among mental health care service providers who treat women experiencing postpartum depression with regard to the prevalence and effects of postpartum depression on women and children; (2) establish a referral network of mental health care providers and support services for women who are in need of postpartum depression treatment; (3) increase women's access to formal and informal peer support services, including access to certified peer specialists who have received training related to postpartum depression; (4) raise public awareness for, and reduce the stigma related to postpartum depression; and (5) provide available funds to postpartum depression screening, referral, treatment, and support services.