STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

8729

IN SENATE

July 10, 2020 ___________

Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 including statis- tics on childbirth complications, fetal losses, and other injuries in information leaflets for maternity patients

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2803-j of the public health law, 2 as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1996 and paragraph (m) as 3 amended by chapter 431 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 2. Such leaflet shall also include statistics relating to the annual 6 percentage of maternity related procedures performed, maternal outcomes 7 and maternal deaths at such hospital or birth center, as provided by the 8 commissioner, including but not limited to the following: 9 (a) the annual number and percentage of total deaths resulting from 10 complications during childbirth, for the period between childbirth and 11 six weeks after delivery, and the top six complications from pregnancy 12 and delivery that result in such deaths broken down by the age and race 13 of the mother; 14 (b) the annual number of third trimester fetal losses and stillbirths 15 occurring the hospital or birth center; 16 (c) the annual number and percentage of hemorrhages and injuries moth- 17 ers sustain related to childbirth including damage to tissue and organs 18 during cesarean birth, third and fourth degree tearing, broken down by 19 the age and race of the mother; 20 (d) the annual rate of cesarean sections, primary, repeat and total, 21 performed at such facility; 22 [(b)] (e) the annual percentage of women with previous cesarean 23 sections who have had a subsequent successful vaginal birth; 24 [(c)] (f) the annual percentage of deliveries by midwives; 25 [(d)] (g) the annual percentage of births utilizing electronic fetal 26 monitoring listed on the basis of external and internal;

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16923-02-0

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1 [(e)](h) the annual percentage of births utilizing forceps, listed on 2 the basis of low forceps delivery and mid forceps delivery; 3 [(f)] (i) the annual percentage of breech births delivered vaginally; 4 [(g)] (j) the annual percentage of births utilizing analgesia; 5 [(h)] (k) the annual percentage of births utilizing anesthesia includ- 6 ing general, spinal, epidural, and paracervical listed on the basis of 7 vaginal and cesarean births; 8 [(i)] (l) the annual percentage of births utilizing induction of 9 labor; 10 [(j)] (m) the annual percentage of births utilizing augmentation of 11 labor; 12 [(k)] (n) the annual percentage of vaginal births utilizing episioto- 13 mies; 14 [(l)] (o) whether birthing rooms are available for use in the facili- 15 ty; 16 [(m)] (p) whether rooming-in is available in the facility, on the 17 basis of twenty-four hours a day or daytime. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.