S04325 Summary:

BILL NOS04325
 
SAME ASSAME AS A00446
 
SPONSORHANNON
 
COSPNSRAMEDORE, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, DILAN, ESPAILLAT, FUNKE, HAMILTON, KRUEGER, LARKIN, MARTINS, MONTGOMERY, MURPHY, PANEPINTO, PARKER, PERKINS, SAVINO, SQUADRON
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd SS2801 & 2803, Pub Health L
 
Relates to midwifery birth centers; includes term within the definition of a hospital; directs the commissioner of health to make regulations relating to establishment and operation of midwifery birth centers.
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S04325 Actions:

BILL NOS04325
 
03/13/2015REFERRED TO HEALTH
04/22/20151ST REPORT CAL.395
04/23/20152ND REPORT CAL.
04/27/2015ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/25/2015COMMITTED TO RULES
01/06/2016REFERRED TO HEALTH
05/04/20161ST REPORT CAL.671
05/05/20162ND REPORT CAL.
05/09/2016ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/14/2016SUBSTITUTED BY A446
 A00446 AMEND= Gottfried
 01/07/2015referred to health
 02/03/2015reported
 02/05/2015advanced to third reading cal.6
 03/11/2015passed assembly
 03/11/2015delivered to senate
 03/11/2015REFERRED TO HEALTH
 01/06/2016DIED IN SENATE
 01/06/2016RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 01/06/2016ordered to third reading cal.35
 05/11/2016passed assembly
 05/11/2016delivered to senate
 05/11/2016REFERRED TO HEALTH
 06/14/2016SUBSTITUTED FOR S4325
 06/14/20163RD READING CAL.671
 06/14/2016PASSED SENATE
 06/14/2016RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 10/26/2016delivered to governor
 11/04/2016signed chap.397
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S04325 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S04325 Memo:

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S04325 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4325
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 13, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  midwifery  birth
          centers
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2801 of the public health law,  as
     2  separately  amended  by  chapters  297  and  416 of the laws of 1983, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1. "Hospital" means a facility or institution engaged  principally  in
     5  providing services by or under the supervision of a physician or, in the
     6  case  of  a dental clinic or dental dispensary, of a dentist, or, in the
     7  case of a midwifery birth center, of  a  midwife,  for  the  prevention,
     8  diagnosis  or  treatment  of  human  disease, pain, injury, deformity or
     9  physical condition, including, but not limited to, a  general  hospital,
    10  public  health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, dental clin-
    11  ic, dental dispensary, rehabilitation center other than a facility  used
    12  solely  for vocational rehabilitation, nursing home, tuberculosis hospi-
    13  tal, chronic  disease  hospital,  maternity  hospital,  midwifery  birth
    14  center,  lying-in-asylum,  out-patient  department,  out-patient  lodge,
    15  dispensary and a laboratory or central service facility serving  one  or
    16  more  such  institutions,  but  the  term  hospital shall not include an
    17  institution, sanitarium or other facility engaged principally in provid-
    18  ing services for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of mental  disa-
    19  bility  and  which  is subject to the powers of visitation, examination,
    20  inspection and investigation of the department of mental hygiene  except
    21  for  those  distinct  parts  of  such  a facility which provide hospital
    22  service. The provisions of this article shall not apply to a facility or
    23  institution engaged principally in providing services by  or  under  the
    24  supervision of the bona fide members and adherents of a recognized reli-
    25  gious  organization  whose teachings include reliance on spiritual means
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02738-01-5

        S. 4325                             2
 
     1  through prayer alone for healing in the practice of the religion of such
     2  organization and where services are provided in  accordance  with  those
     3  teachings.
     4    §  2. Section 2801 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
     5  subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     6    11. "Midwifery birth center" means a hospital engaged  principally  in
     7  providing  prenatal and obstetric care, where such services are provided
     8  principally by midwives.
     9    § 3. Section 2803 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
    10  subdivision 11 to read as follows:
    11    11.  The  commissioner  shall  make  regulations relating to midwifery
    12  birth centers, including relating to  establishment,  construction,  and
    13  operation,  considering the standards of state and national professional
    14  associations of midwifery birth centers, in consultation with  represen-
    15  tatives  of  midwives,  midwifery  birth  centers, and general hospitals
    16  providing obstetric services.
    17    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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