File #: Int 1146-2024    Version: * Name: Expanding the availability of the newborn home visiting program.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 12/19/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the availability of the newborn home visiting program
Sponsors: Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a Newborn Home Visiting Program and ensure that such program is available to 75 percent of all Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Equity identified neighborhoods within 3 years of the effective date of the bill and to be available in 100% of such neighborhoods within 5 years. The bill would also require the Department to submit two progress reports to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council detailing the availability of the program in priority neighborhoods.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1146, 2. Int. No. 1146, 3. December 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1146

 

By Council Member Brooks-Powers

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to expanding the availability of the newborn home visiting program

 

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 17-168.2 to read as follows:

§ 17-168.2 Availability of newborn home visiting program. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section the following terms have the following meanings:

Newborn home visiting program. The term “newborn home visiting program” means a program administered by the department that aims to provide no-cost in person and virtual home visits from social workers, nurses, and lactation professionals for new parents within the first few weeks of the birth of a child.

Priority neighborhood. The term “priority neighborhood” means the neighborhoods determined by the office of racial equity pursuant to section 3401 of the charter. 

b. The commissioner shall establish a newborn home visiting program. Such program shall  be available to 75 percent of priority neighborhoods within no later than 3 years after the effective date of the local law that added this section and to 100 percent of priority neighborhoods within no later than 5 years of the effective date of the local law that added this section.

c. No later than 3 years after the effective date of the local law that added this section, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and speaker of the council a progress report on the availability of the newborn home visiting program in 75 percent of priority neighborhoods, as required by subdivision b of this section. No later than 5 years after the effective date of the local law that added this section, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and speaker of the council a final progress report on the availability of the newborn home visiting program in 100 percent of priority neighborhoods, as required by subdivision b of this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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