Provides maternity patients with information regarding births utilizing forceps including any potential injuries the mother or child could sustain due to the use of forceps and statistics on deaths resulting from the use of forceps.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2433
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BYRNES, GALLAHAN, J. M. GIGLIO, MORINELLO -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing materni-
ty patients with information regarding births utilizing forceps
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2803-j of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 1-e to read as follows:
3 1-e. The informational leaflet shall also include information relating
4 to the use of forceps during delivery including, but not limited to, any
5 potential injuries the mother or child could sustain due to such use of
6 forceps.
7 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the public
8 health law, as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1996, is amended to
9 read as follows:
10 (e) the annual percentage of births utilizing forceps, listed on the
11 basis of low forceps delivery and mid forceps delivery, including the
12 annual number and percentage of total deaths resulting from births
13 utilizing forceps;
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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