NY State Senate Bill 2021-S7753

Senate Bill S7753

Signed By Governor

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the office of mental health and the department of health to conduct a study on the disparate impacts regarding postpartum depression screening tests

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jul 19, 2022	signed chap.384
Jul 11, 2022	delivered to governor
May 16, 2022	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.215 substituted for a9102
Mar 23, 2022	referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate
Feb 28, 2022	advanced to third reading
Feb 17, 2022	2nd report cal.
Feb 16, 2022	1st report cal.534
Jan 10, 2022	referred to mental health

Votes

- Mar 23, 2022 - Floor Vote
  S7753
  
  63
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Mar 23, 2022
      
      aye (63)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Bailey
      
      Biaggi
      
      Borrello
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brooks
      
      Brouk
      
      Cleare
      
      Comrie
      
      Cooney
      
      Felder
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mannion
      
      Martucci
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Palumbo
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rath III
      
      Reichlin-Melnick
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      Weik
  Feb 16, 2022 - Mental Health Committee Vote
  S7753
  
  7
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Mental Health Committee Vote: Feb 16, 2022
      
      aye (7)
      
      Brooks
      
      Brouk
      
      Felder
      
      Palumbo
      
      Rivera
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Tedisco

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2021-S7753 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9102
Law Section:: Mental Hygiene

2021-S7753 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office of mental health and the department of health to conduct a study on the disparate impacts regarding postpartum depression screening tests and to prepare and submit a report of findings and recommendations to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the senate and assembly minority leaders.

2021-S7753 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7753

SPONSOR: BROUK
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to require the office of mental health and the department of
health to conduct a study on the disparate impacts regarding postpartum
depression screening tests

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This bill would require a group of postpartum experts to conduct a
comprehensive study and prepare a report on the differential impacts of
postpartum depression screening measures in relation to black and brown
women and birthing people.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one - Explains who will help conduct the study, that a report
must be made, what the study must be on, and the goal of the study which
is to minimize disparities found in the current postpartum mood screen-
ing tools. The bill identifies what the study will focus on including

identifying racial disparities, reviewing current protocols, and evalu-
ating how those protocols can change current inadequate screenings.
Lastly, The bill identifies some but not all possible topics that could
be included within new screening measures.

Section two - sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill directs the Office of Mental Health and the Department of
Health to detect racial and other disparities within postpartum
depression screenings, and research and analyze new ways to better
detect postpartum depression. A focus will be placed on black and brown
women specifically given the disparate impact of postpartum depression
on these women and families.

According to both the Center for Disease Control (CDC)and the National
Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) 1 in 8 women suffer from maternal
depression. NAMI states that black women are three times more likely to
experience maternal depression. It is estimated that over half of the
instances of maternal depression in women of color go unreported.

The current depression screening test is the Edinburgh Postnatal
Depression Scale (EPDS). Experts have stated, and community leaders have
told us, that this test was designed with higher and middle-income white
women in mind. As such, screening often does not take social determi-
nants of health into account-food scarcity, systemic racism, housing
insecurity and more-and it is less effective at detecting maternal
depression in black and brown women, as well as in nonbinary and trans-
masculine gestational parents.

Postpartum depression can have significant negative consequences, not
only for those affected but for their children and families. In asking
professionals to reevaluate current postpartum depression screenings and
factor in modern medical understandings and social determinants of
health, we may facilitate the creation of new screening tools able to

better diagnose and treat the tens of thousands of mothers and families
affected by postpartum depression annually.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

TBD.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2021-S7753 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7753
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to require the office of mental  health  and  the  department  of
   health  to conduct a study on the disparate impacts regarding postpar-
   tum depression screening tests
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  1.  The  office of mental health, in conjunction with the
 department of health and any other  department  or  experts  within  the
 maternal  health field shall conduct a comprehensive study and prepare a
 report on the differential impacts of  postpartum  depression  screening
 measures  in  relation  to black women, brown women and birthing people.
 This study shall examine what additional questions  or  tools  could  be
 implemented  to  minimize disparities found within the current screening
 protocols. The data collected shall only be utilized as authorized under
 state and federal law to inform  the  state's  efforts  to  advance  the
 maternal health scope for birthing people, in relation to providing fair
 and equal medical care.
   2. The purpose of this study shall be to:
   (a)  identify  any  racial  disparities within protocols and screening
 measures for postpartum depression; and
   (b) review current protocols and screening measures used  to  identify
 postpartum depression and overall birthing people's health after birth.
   3.  This study shall research and identify questions to be used within
 postpartum depression screenings to detect, at a minimum, the following:
   (a) stress around food scarcity within the home;
   (b) financial stressors;
   (c) quality of sleep;
   (d) quality of health;
   (e) substance abuse issues;
   (f) additional maternal depression disorders, including but not limit-
 ed to perinatal and postpartum mood disorders, postpartum anxiety, post-
 partum psychosis;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13720-03-2

 S. 7753                             2
 
   (g) symptoms of isolation,  including  but  not  limited  to  symptoms
 caused by the COVID-19 pandemic; and
   (h)  different family structures and possible causes of stressors that
 could result from such family structures.
   4. Not later than one year after the effective date of this  act,  the
 commissioners  of  the  office of mental health and department of health
 shall prepare and submit to the   governor, the temporary  president  of
 the  senate,  the  speaker  of  the assembly, the minority leader of the
 senate and the minority leader of the assembly, a report of the  study's
 findings, together with specific recommendations for minimizing existing
 barriers  and maximizing new techniques and tests to better aid postpar-
 tum depression testing and other maternal health testing and/or  screen-
 ing.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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