File #: Int 0808-2022    Version: * Name: Holding quarterly meetings on maternal mortality efforts.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Hospitals
On agenda: 10/27/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to holding quarterly meetings on maternal mortality efforts
Sponsors: Lynn C. Schulman, Lincoln Restler, Gale A. Brewer, Rita C. Joseph, Shaun Abreu
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the department of health and mental hygiene to convene quarterly meetings on efforts to combat maternal mortality taking place in the city focusing on issues hospitals are facing and how to best mitigate them. Stakeholders to be invited to the quarterly meetings include health and hospitals corporation, the chair of the committee on health and the chair of the committee on hospitals.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 808, 2. Int. No. 808, 3. October 27, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-27-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 27, 2022
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2023*Lynn C. Schulman City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/2022*Lynn C. Schulman City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/2022*Lynn C. Schulman City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 808

 

By Council Members Schulman, Restler, Brewer, Joseph and Abreu

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to holding quarterly meetings on maternal mortality efforts

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.3.2 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.3.2 Maternal mortality quarterly meetings. a. The department shall hold quarterly meetings on efforts taking place in the city to combat maternal mortality, as defined in subdivision a of section 17-199.3, with the aim to discuss ongoing issues hospitals are facing with maternal mortality and ways these issues can be mitigated.

b. The department shall invite all relevant stakeholders to the quarterly meetings including, but not limited to, the following:

1. A representative from New York city health and hospitals corporation;

2. The chair of the council committee on health or a successor committee with oversight over health-related issues; and

3. The chair of the council committee on hospitals or a successor committee with oversight over hospitals.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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