A05309 Summary:
| BILL NO | A05309 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Reyes |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §206-c, Pub Health L | |
| Authorizes the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services. | |
A05309 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5309 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 206-c to read as follows: 3 § 206-c. Special powers to issue standing orders for doula services. 4 Notwithstanding section sixty-five hundred thirty of the education law, 5 the commissioner shall issue a non-patient specific statewide standing 6 order for the provision of doula services for pregnant, birthing, and 7 postpartum individuals through twelve months postpartum. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08158-01-5