Bill Text: NY A08207 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the department of health to convene a maternal health care and birthing standards workgroup to study, evaluate and make recommendations related to the development of maternal health care and birthing standards to ensure that patients receive the highest quality of care.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-23 - substituted by s7702a [A08207 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08207-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8207--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to require the department of health to convene a  maternal health
          care and birthing standards workgroup; and providing for the repeal of
          such provisions upon the expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  Maternal health care and birthing standards workgroup. a.
     2  The commissioner of health shall convene a  workgroup  of  stakeholders,
     3  including but not limited to hospitals, obstetricians, midwives, doulas,
     4  maternal health care provider organizations; mental health care provider
     5  organizations;  and  any  additional  stakeholders that the commissioner
     6  deems necessary to study, evaluate and make recommendations  related  to
     7  the development of maternal health care and birthing standards to ensure
     8  that patients receive the highest quality of care. These recommendations
     9  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,  standards that ensure every
    10  patient receives:
    11    (i) fair, courteous and respectful culturally competent care  free  of
    12  discrimination;
    13    (ii)  accurate and judgment-free advice and recommendations that allow
    14  for informed decision making and consent regarding care  and  treatment,
    15  including risks, benefits, outcomes and alternative procedures;
    16    (iii)  clear,  concise  and  easily understood information about their
    17  care and treatment outcomes, medical  team  and  birthing  options,  the
    18  policies  and  procedures  of  the  hospital  or  birthing  center,  and
    19  resources available to them;
    20    (iv) an opportunity to discuss their birthing preferences  with  their
    21  care team and have such preferences documented; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11862-03-4
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     1    (v)  adequate  support  during  their pregnancy, labor and childbirth,
     2  including access to doula and mental health services.
     3    b.  No  later  than one year after the effective date of this act, the
     4  workgroup shall submit their recommendations in the form  of  a  written
     5  report to the commissioner, the speaker of the  assembly,  the temporary
     6  president    of  the senate, the minority leader of the assembly and the
     7  minority leader of the senate.
     8    c. Upon receipt of the  workgroup's  report,  the  commissioner  shall
     9  publish  such  recommendations on the department of health's website and
    10  update all relevant materials provided to the public through the depart-
    11  ment's health care   and wellness  education  and  outreach  program  to
    12  reflect these standards.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law and shall expire 2 years  after  such  effective  date
    15  when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed.