New York Assembly Bill A09648 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9648--A  IN ASSEMBLY March 27, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 206-c to read as follows: 3 § 206-c. Special powers to issue standing orders for doula services. 4 Notwithstanding section sixty-five hundred thirty of the education law, 5 the commissioner shall issue a non-patient specific statewide standing 6 order for the provision of doula services for pregnant, birthing, and 7 postpartum individuals through twelve months postpartum. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14106-04-4