CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1707Introduced by Assembly Member PachecoFebruary 17, 2023 An act to amend Section 123615.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to mental health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1707, as introduced, Pacheco. Maternal mental health.Existing law, the Maternal Mental Health Conditions Education, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Act, requires a general acute care hospital or special hospital that has a perinatal unit to develop and implement a program to provide education and information to appropriate health care professionals and patients about maternal mental health conditions. The act also makes related findings and declarations.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those findings and declarations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 123615.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) Maternal depression is a common complication of pregnancy. Maternal mental health disorders encompass a range of mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and postpartum psychosis.(b) Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women during or after pregnancy, but all women are at risk of suffering from maternal mental health conditions.(c) Untreated maternal mental health conditions significantly and negatively impact the short- and long-term health and well-being of affected women and their children.(d) Untreated maternal mental health conditions cause adverse birth outcomes, impaired maternal-infant bonding, poor infant growth, childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and significant medical and economic costs, which are estimated to be $22,500 twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per mother.(e) Lack of understanding and social stigma of mental health conditions prevent women and families from understanding the signs, symptoms, and risks involved with maternal mental health conditions and disproportionately affect women who lack access to social support networks.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the risk factors, signs, symptoms, and treatment options for maternal mental health conditions among pregnant women and their families, the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborn infants.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1707Introduced by Assembly Member PachecoFebruary 17, 2023 An act to amend Section 123615.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to mental health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1707, as introduced, Pacheco. Maternal mental health.Existing law, the Maternal Mental Health Conditions Education, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Act, requires a general acute care hospital or special hospital that has a perinatal unit to develop and implement a program to provide education and information to appropriate health care professionals and patients about maternal mental health conditions. The act also makes related findings and declarations.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those findings and declarations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1707
Introduced by Assembly Member PachecoFebruary 17, 2023
Introduced by Assembly Member Pacheco
February 17, 2023
An act to amend Section 123615.5 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to mental health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1707, as introduced, Pacheco. Maternal mental health.
Existing law, the Maternal Mental Health Conditions Education, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Act, requires a general acute care hospital or special hospital that has a perinatal unit to develop and implement a program to provide education and information to appropriate health care professionals and patients about maternal mental health conditions. The act also makes related findings and declarations.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those findings and declarations.
Existing law, the Maternal Mental Health Conditions Education, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Act, requires a general acute care hospital or special hospital that has a perinatal unit to develop and implement a program to provide education and information to appropriate health care professionals and patients about maternal mental health conditions. The act also makes related findings and declarations.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those findings and declarations.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 123615.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) Maternal depression is a common complication of pregnancy. Maternal mental health disorders encompass a range of mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and postpartum psychosis.(b) Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women during or after pregnancy, but all women are at risk of suffering from maternal mental health conditions.(c) Untreated maternal mental health conditions significantly and negatively impact the short- and long-term health and well-being of affected women and their children.(d) Untreated maternal mental health conditions cause adverse birth outcomes, impaired maternal-infant bonding, poor infant growth, childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and significant medical and economic costs, which are estimated to be $22,500 twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per mother.(e) Lack of understanding and social stigma of mental health conditions prevent women and families from understanding the signs, symptoms, and risks involved with maternal mental health conditions and disproportionately affect women who lack access to social support networks.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the risk factors, signs, symptoms, and treatment options for maternal mental health conditions among pregnant women and their families, the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborn infants.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 123615.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) Maternal depression is a common complication of pregnancy. Maternal mental health disorders encompass a range of mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and postpartum psychosis.(b) Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women during or after pregnancy, but all women are at risk of suffering from maternal mental health conditions.(c) Untreated maternal mental health conditions significantly and negatively impact the short- and long-term health and well-being of affected women and their children.(d) Untreated maternal mental health conditions cause adverse birth outcomes, impaired maternal-infant bonding, poor infant growth, childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and significant medical and economic costs, which are estimated to be $22,500 twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per mother.(e) Lack of understanding and social stigma of mental health conditions prevent women and families from understanding the signs, symptoms, and risks involved with maternal mental health conditions and disproportionately affect women who lack access to social support networks.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the risk factors, signs, symptoms, and treatment options for maternal mental health conditions among pregnant women and their families, the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborn infants.
SECTION 1. Section 123615.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
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123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) Maternal depression is a common complication of pregnancy. Maternal mental health disorders encompass a range of mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and postpartum psychosis.(b) Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women during or after pregnancy, but all women are at risk of suffering from maternal mental health conditions.(c) Untreated maternal mental health conditions significantly and negatively impact the short- and long-term health and well-being of affected women and their children.(d) Untreated maternal mental health conditions cause adverse birth outcomes, impaired maternal-infant bonding, poor infant growth, childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and significant medical and economic costs, which are estimated to be $22,500 twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per mother.(e) Lack of understanding and social stigma of mental health conditions prevent women and families from understanding the signs, symptoms, and risks involved with maternal mental health conditions and disproportionately affect women who lack access to social support networks.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the risk factors, signs, symptoms, and treatment options for maternal mental health conditions among pregnant women and their families, the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborn infants.
123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) Maternal depression is a common complication of pregnancy. Maternal mental health disorders encompass a range of mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and postpartum psychosis.(b) Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women during or after pregnancy, but all women are at risk of suffering from maternal mental health conditions.(c) Untreated maternal mental health conditions significantly and negatively impact the short- and long-term health and well-being of affected women and their children.(d) Untreated maternal mental health conditions cause adverse birth outcomes, impaired maternal-infant bonding, poor infant growth, childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and significant medical and economic costs, which are estimated to be $22,500 twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per mother.(e) Lack of understanding and social stigma of mental health conditions prevent women and families from understanding the signs, symptoms, and risks involved with maternal mental health conditions and disproportionately affect women who lack access to social support networks.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the risk factors, signs, symptoms, and treatment options for maternal mental health conditions among pregnant women and their families, the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborn infants.
123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) Maternal depression is a common complication of pregnancy. Maternal mental health disorders encompass a range of mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and postpartum psychosis.(b) Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women during or after pregnancy, but all women are at risk of suffering from maternal mental health conditions.(c) Untreated maternal mental health conditions significantly and negatively impact the short- and long-term health and well-being of affected women and their children.(d) Untreated maternal mental health conditions cause adverse birth outcomes, impaired maternal-infant bonding, poor infant growth, childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and significant medical and economic costs, which are estimated to be $22,500 twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per mother.(e) Lack of understanding and social stigma of mental health conditions prevent women and families from understanding the signs, symptoms, and risks involved with maternal mental health conditions and disproportionately affect women who lack access to social support networks.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the risk factors, signs, symptoms, and treatment options for maternal mental health conditions among pregnant women and their families, the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborn infants.
123615.5. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Maternal depression is a common complication of pregnancy. Maternal mental health disorders encompass a range of mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, and postpartum psychosis.
(b) Maternal mental health conditions affect one in five women during or after pregnancy, but all women are at risk of suffering from maternal mental health conditions.
(c) Untreated maternal mental health conditions significantly and negatively impact the short- and long-term health and well-being of affected women and their children.
(d) Untreated maternal mental health conditions cause adverse birth outcomes, impaired maternal-infant bonding, poor infant growth, childhood emotional and behavioral problems, and significant medical and economic costs, which are estimated to be $22,500 twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars ($22,500) per mother.
(e) Lack of understanding and social stigma of mental health conditions prevent women and families from understanding the signs, symptoms, and risks involved with maternal mental health conditions and disproportionately affect women who lack access to social support networks.
(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to raise awareness of the risk factors, signs, symptoms, and treatment options for maternal mental health conditions among pregnant women and their families, the general public, primary health care providers, and health care providers who care for pregnant women, postpartum women, and newborn infants.