Requires statistics on maternal deaths, stillbirths and birth related injuries by race to be included in the informational material provided to prospective maternity patients at all hospitals and birth centers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8726
IN SENATE
July 10, 2020
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Introduced by Sens. KAPLAN, BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring statis-
tics on maternal deaths and injuries by race 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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is
3 amended and a new paragraph (n) is added to read as follows:
4 (m) whether rooming-in is available in the facility, on the basis of
5 twenty-four hours a day or daytime[.];
6 (n) the annual percentage of: maternal deaths, before, during and up
7 to six weeks after childbirth; third trimester fetal losses and still-
8 births; hemorrhage; and injuries related to childbirth including damage
9 to tissue and organs during cesarean birth and third and fourth degree
10 tearing. The information in this paragraph shall be provided with a
11 racial breakdown on all data points.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16892-03-0
