Bill Text: NY A01297 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires hospitals to adopt, implement and periodically update standard protocols for the management of fetal demise.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.542 [A01297 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01297-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         1297--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SIMON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, REYES,
          COLTON, WALKER, GIBBS, KELLES, FORREST -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of
          A.   LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee -- reference changed to the Committee on
          Ways   and  Means  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
          tals  to  adopt,  implement and periodically update standard protocols
          for the management of fetal demise

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Mickie's law".
     2    § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2803-o-1
     3  to read as follows:
     4    §  2803-o-1.  Required  protocols  for  fetal  demise. Hospitals shall
     5  adopt, implement and periodically  update  standard  protocols  for  the
     6  management of fetal demise. Such protocols shall require the hospital to
     7  determine whether a pregnant person is experiencing an emergency medical
     8  condition in relation to fetal demise, and upon making a diagnosis of an
     9  emergency  medical  condition, admit the pregnant person to the hospital
    10  or treat them in the emergency room for  close  observation,  continuous
    11  monitoring  and  stabilizing treatment until it is deemed medically safe
    12  for discharge or transfer to another medical facility or unit, if neces-
    13  sary, in accordance with the federal  Emergency  Medical  Treatment  and
    14  Labor Act (EMTALA).
    15    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.


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