Bill Text: NY A05734 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes within the health care and wellness education and outreach program offered by the department of health resources for individuals who have suffered a pregnancy loss or infant loss.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-7)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - substituted by s6082a [A05734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05734-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5734--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. PRETLOW, DINOWITZ, REYES, BURGOS, SAYEGH, McMA-
          HON, COLTON, HYNDMAN, AUBRY, TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, SOLAGES, ROZIC, KELLES,
          CUNNINGHAM, CRUZ,  CHANDLER-WATERMAN,  GUNTHER,  BENEDETTO,  LUNSFORD,
          LEVENBERG,  SANTABARBARA,  STERN, GIBBS, WALLACE, DAVILA, COOK, ANDER-
          SON, ALVAREZ, ZINERMAN, JOYNER, SEPTIMO, BENDETT, K. BROWN, MORINELLO,
          PIROZZOLO, DeSTEFANO, FLOOD, HEVESI,  MEEKS,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  SIMONE,
          LUCAS  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A. BYRNES -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on  Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to conducting  educa-
          tion  and  outreach programs for individuals who have suffered a preg-
          nancy loss or infant loss

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 207 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (r) to read as follows:
     3    (r) For those who are experiencing  pregnancy  loss  or  infant  loss,
     4  which shall for the purposes of this paragraph include but not be limit-
     5  ed  to,  miscarriage,  stillbirth,  or  termination for medical reasons,
     6  information regarding:
     7    (i) the potential mental and physical impact from such loss; and
     8    (ii) resources for support and follow-up care.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06322-03-3