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NY A04018
Bill
Status
1/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Phara Souffrant Forrest
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AI Summary
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Requires all hospitals and facilities providing perinatal care to implement evidence-based implicit bias training programs for healthcare providers, with initial training within one year and refresher courses every two years
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Mandates training cover identification of unconscious biases, cultural barriers to inclusion, health inequities in maternal care, effective cross-cultural communication, and reproductive justice
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Requires the Department of Health to track and publish data on severe maternal morbidity (hemorrhage, hypertension, preeclampsia, sepsis, etc.) every two years and pregnancy-related deaths every three years, disaggregated by race and ethnicity
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Hospitals must provide expectant birthing parents with written information upon admission about patient rights, including the right to refuse treatment, freedom from discrimination, appropriate pain assessment, and how to file complaints with the Department of Health
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Death certificates must now indicate whether the decedent was pregnant at the time of death or within one year prior, addressing the tracking of pregnancy-related mortality
Legislative Description
Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act to require hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health care providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; requires hospitals to provide expectant birthing parents with written information regarding certain patient rights; requires information related to pregnancy, if known, to be included on death certificates.
Last Action
referred to health
1/7/2026