Assembly Bill A5576

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain information about the facility be provided to prospective maternity patients

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Current Bill Status - Passed Senate & Assembly

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A5576 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3610
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-j, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8726
2021-2022: A4598, S534

2023-A5576 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain information about the facility and what types of plans and procedures such facility has in place to be provided to prospective maternity patients.

2023-A5576 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5576
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
   information about the facility 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 six new paragraphs (n), (o), (p), (q), (r) and (s) are 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) WHETHER THE FACILITY CONDUCTS SAFETY DRILLS TO PREPARE FOR OBSTET-
 RIC EMERGENCIES;
   (O) WHETHER THE FACILITY PARTICIPATES IN  QUALITY  IMPROVEMENT  INITI-
 ATIVES;
   (P)  WHETHER  THE  FACILITY HAS AN AGREEMENT AND POLICY TO ARRANGE FOR
 EMERGENT TRANSFER OF CARE FOR CRITICALLY ILL PREGNANT PEOPLE/INFANTS  TO
 HIGHER LEVELS OF CARE (APPLICABLE ONLY FOR THOSE FACILITIES THAT ARE NOT
 THE  DESIGNATED  REGIONAL  PERINATAL  CENTER OR A QUATERNARY OR TERTIARY
 CARE CENTER WITH LEVEL III-IV NICU);
   (Q) WHETHER THE FACILITY HAS A WRITTEN COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT PLAN
 TO REDUCE RACIAL DISPARITIES AND ADDRESS COMMUNITY NEEDS;
   (R) WHETHER THE FACILITY OFFERS, UPON PATIENT REQUEST, AN AUTOPSY  FOR
 STILLBIRTH; AND
   (S)  WHETHER THE FACILITY OFFERS BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT FOR PATIENTS THAT
 HAVE SUFFERED A STILLBIRTH OR THIRD TRIMESTER FETAL LOSS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02346-01-3

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