Bill Text: NY A09124 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides maternity patients with information regarding births utilizing forceps including any potential injuries the mother or child could sustain due to the use of forceps and statistics on deaths resulting from the use of forceps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in health [A09124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09124-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9124

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing materni-
          ty patients with information regarding births utilizing forceps

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2803-j of the  public  health  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-e to read as follows:
     3    1-e. The informational leaflet shall also include information relating
     4  to the use of forceps during delivery including, but not limited to, any
     5  potential  injuries the mother or child could sustain due to such use of
     6  forceps.
     7    § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 2803-j  of  the  public
     8  health  law, as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1996, is amended to
     9  read as follows:
    10    (e) the annual percentage of births utilizing forceps, listed  on  the
    11  basis  of  low  forceps delivery and mid forceps delivery, including the
    12  annual number and percentage  of  total  deaths  resulting  from  births
    13  utilizing forceps;
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14099-01-1