NY State Senate Bill 2019-S8726

Senate Bill S8726

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring racial statistics on maternal deaths in the informational material provided to prospective maternity patients

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2019-S8726 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S534
2023-2024: S3610

2019-S8726 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires statistics on maternal deaths, stillbirths and birth related injuries by race to be included in the informational material provided to prospective maternity patients at all hospitals and birth centers.

2019-S8726 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8726

SPONSOR: KAPLAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring statis-
tics on maternal deaths and injuries by race to be included in the
informational material provided to prospective maternity patients at all
hospitals and birth centers

 
PURPOSE:

This legislation would require statistics on maternal deaths and inju-
ries by race to be included in the informational material provided to
prospective maternal patients at all hospitals and birth centers.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 adds a new paragraph (n) to Subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of
the Public Health Law. This new language requires new information to be
included in the informational leaflet provided by a hospital or birth

center as already required under this section of law. This language
would include the annual percentage broken down by race, of maternal
deaths before, during and up to six weeks after childbirth; third
trimester fetal losses and stillbirths, hemorrhage and other injuries
related to childbirth.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation seeks to provide information and to increase transpar-
ency as it relates to the racial disparities of pregnancy and birth
outcomes. Further this bill seeks to expand on an already existing law
that is aimed at presenting important information to prospective moth-
ers. There is significant evidence that expectant mothers in minority
communities are presented with limited options for prenatal care and
childbirth, we need to provide information to expectant mothers that
will help them make an informed decision. Statistics have presented that
black women are at least three times more likely to die from pregnancy
and birth related complications and are 50% more likely to suffer severe
pregnancy and birth complications.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day.

2019-S8726 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8726
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               July 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. KAPLAN, BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  statis-
   tics  on  maternal  deaths  and injuries by race to be included in the
   informational material provided to prospective maternity  patients  at
   all hospitals and birth centers

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2 of section  2803-j  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is
 amended and a new paragraph (n) is added to read as follows:
   (m) whether rooming-in is available in the facility, on the  basis  of
 twenty-four hours a day or daytime[.];
   (N)  THE ANNUAL PERCENTAGE OF:  MATERNAL DEATHS, BEFORE, DURING AND UP
 TO SIX WEEKS AFTER CHILDBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER FETAL LOSSES  AND  STILL-
 BIRTHS;  HEMORRHAGE; AND INJURIES RELATED TO CHILDBIRTH INCLUDING DAMAGE
 TO TISSUE AND ORGANS DURING CESAREAN BIRTH AND THIRD AND  FOURTH  DEGREE
 TEARING.  THE  INFORMATION  IN  THIS  PARAGRAPH SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH A
 RACIAL BREAKDOWN ON ALL DATA POINTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16892-03-0

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Anna M. Kaplan