STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

8726

IN SENATE

July 10, 2020 ___________

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