Bill Text: NY A01025 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to consult with the office of addiction services and supports and relevant stakeholders as determined by such commissioner in addition to the office of mental health to publish guidance for incorporating maternal depression screenings into routine prenatal care; changes the effective date to eighteen months.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - ordered to third reading rules cal.29 [A01025 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01025-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1025

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
          commissioner  of  health  to  consult  with  the  office  of addiction
          services  and  supports  to  publish  certain  guidance  on   maternal
          depression  screenings,  and  to  amend  a chapter of the laws of 2024
          amending the public health law relating to maternal depression screen-
          ings, as proposed in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  2039-B  and  A.
          2870-B, in relation to the effectiveness thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2500-k of the public  health  law,
     2  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law
     3  relating  to  maternal depression screenings, as proposed in legislative
     4  bills numbers S. 2039-B and A. 2870-B, is amended to read as follows:
     5    3. Maternal depression screenings. (a) The commissioner, in  consulta-
     6  tion  with the office of mental health, the office of addiction services
     7  and supports, and other  relevant  stakeholders  as  determined  by  the
     8  commissioner,  shall  [develop and] publish guidance [and standards] for
     9  incorporating maternal  depression  screenings  into  routine  perinatal
    10  care.  This  guidance  shall include, but not be limited to, recommenda-
    11  tions and best practices related to:
    12    (i) when maternal  health  care  providers  should  initiate  maternal
    13  depression  screenings  and how often such screenings should be repeated
    14  throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period;
    15    (ii) screening for  social  needs  that  may  contribute  to  maternal
    16  depression  such  as social support, intimate partner violence, food and
    17  housing insecurity,  diaper  insecurity,  and  barriers  to  appropriate
    18  healthcare;
    19    (iii) screening for substance use disorders;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02804-01-5

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     1    (iv)  referrals  for  appropriate follow-up evaluation, diagnosis, and
     2  treatment; and
     3    (v) reimbursement methodologies to incentivize provider participation.
     4    (b)  The  commissioner,  in  consultation  with  the  office of mental
     5  health, the office of addiction services and supports, and  other  rele-
     6  vant  stakeholders  as  determined  by  the commissioner, shall identify
     7  existing information and training programs designed to [support]  inform
     8  providers  in  an  effort  to  promote maternal depression screening and
     9  treatment, and publish  the  links  to  such  information  and  training
    10  programs  on  the  department's  website. The identified information and
    11  training programs shall include the following topics:
    12    (i) health equity;
    13    (ii) implicit bias and cultural competency;
    14    (iii) screening, referral and treatment options;
    15    (iv) patient resources and available services;
    16    (v) patients' rights;
    17    (vi) pharmacotherapy;
    18    (vii) trauma-informed, patient-centered care; and
    19    (viii) other topics as identified by the commissioner.
    20    § 2. Section 3 of a chapter of the laws of 2024  amending  the  public
    21  health  law  relating  to maternal depression screenings, as proposed in
    22  legislative bills numbers S. 2039-B and A. 2870-B, is amended to read as
    23  follows:
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect [on the  one  hundred  eightieth  day]
    25  eighteen months after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
    26  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    27  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    28  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
    29    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    30  section one of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
    31  same  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health
    32  law relating to maternal depression screenings, as proposed in  legisla-
    33  tive bills numbers S. 2039-B and A. 2870-B, takes effect.
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