STATE OF NEW YORK
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5992--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 24, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, ADDABBO, FERNANDEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Women's Issues -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to permitting expect-
ing and new mothers' access to their doulas
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 2500-m to read as follows:
3 § 2500-m. Access to doulas. When a person is admitted to a maternal
4 health care facility for delivery and/or inpatient care post-delivery,
5 such person may designate a doula to have access to such person. The
6 maternal health care facility shall not deny such person access to such
7 person's designated doula. For the purposes of this section, the term
8 "maternal health care facility" shall mean a hospital or freestanding
9 birthing center providing perinatal services in accordance with article
10 twenty-eight of this chapter and applicable regulations.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10180-03-3
