File #: Int 0651-2024    Version: Name: Requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to create and distribute materials identifying mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: 10/26/2024 Law number: 2024/100
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to create and distribute materials identifying mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss
Sponsors: Kevin C. Riley, Amanda Farías, Farah N. Louis, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Althea V. Stevens, Shahana K. Hanif, Julie Won, Mercedes Narcisse, Oswald Feliz, Yusef Salaam, James F. Gennaro, Kamillah Hanks, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Sandra Ung, Tiffany Cabán, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Nantasha M. Williams, Alexa Avilés, Lynn C. Schulman, Diana I. Ayala, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Erik D. Bottcher, Kalman Yeger , Carlina Rivera , Darlene Mealy, Kristy Marmorato
Council Member Sponsors: 27
Summary: This bill would require the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to create materials that provide information about the effects of pregnancy loss on mental health and identify mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss. The Commissioner would be required to distribute physical copies of these materials to all facilities operated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that provide reproductive healthcare and to post electronic copies on the department’s website. Additionally, the Commissioner must, to the extent practicable, inform family planning clinics within the city and hospital departments primarily providing reproductive healthcare about the availability of these materials and make physical copies available to them upon request.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 651-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 651, 3. Int. No. 651, 4. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/25/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/25/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/25/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 651-A - 9/19/24, 11. Committee Report 9/26/24, 12. Hearing Transcript 9/26/24, 13. September 26, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-26-24, 15. Int. No. 651-A (FINAL), 16. Fiscal Impact Statement, 17. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
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10/28/2024AKevin C. Riley City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/26/2024AKevin C. Riley Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024AKevin C. Riley City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024AKevin C. Riley City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024AKevin C. Riley Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/2024*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Women and Gender Equity Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/2024*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Women and Gender Equity Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/2024*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/25/2024*Kevin C. Riley Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/7/2024*Kevin C. Riley City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/7/2024*Kevin C. Riley City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 651-A

 

By Council Members Riley, Farías, Louis, Gutiérrez, Stevens, Hanif, Won, Narcisse, Feliz, Salaam, Gennaro, Hanks, De La Rosa, Ung, Cabán, Restler, Hudson, Williams, Avilés, Schulman, Ayala, Sanchez, Bottcher, Yeger, Rivera, Mealy and Marmorato

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to create and distribute materials identifying mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 17-199.21 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 108 for the year 2023, is redesignated section 17-199.26.

§ 2. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.26.1 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.26.1 Mental health materials for individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Designated citywide languages. The term “designated citywide languages” has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision a of section 23-1101.

Pregnancy loss. The term “pregnancy loss” means the loss of a fetus by miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination.

b. The commissioner shall create materials that contain information about the effects of pregnancy loss on mental health and that identify mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss. The department shall make such materials available in the designated citywide languages and shall review and update such materials as appropriate.

c. The commissioner shall distribute physical copies of the materials created pursuant to subdivision b of this section to all facilities operated by the department in which reproductive healthcare is provided and post electronic copies of such materials on the department’s website. The commissioner shall, to the extent practicable, inform the following entities about the availability of such materials and make physical copies of such materials available to such entities upon request:

1. Family planning clinics within the city, for distribution to patients that may benefit from such materials at the discretion of each clinic; and

2. Hospital departments where the primary purpose is the provision of reproductive healthcare, for distribution to patients that may benefit from such materials at the discretion of each hospital.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

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