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A01697 Summary:

BILL NOA01697
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORJoyner
 
COSPNSRBichotte
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add Art 25 Title 7 §2593, Pub Health L; add §97-pppp, St Fin L
 
Establishes a public awareness campaign for maternal depression and makes an appropriation therefor.
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A01697 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A1697        Revised 2/23/17
 
SPONSOR: Joyner
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law and the state finance law, in relation to establishing a public awareness campaign for maternal depression and making an appropriation therefor   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill enacts the Infant Safety Act of 2015 and provides an appropri- ation of $20 million to establish a public awareness campaign for mater- nal depression.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill amends Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding a new title 7 entitled Maternal Depression, estab- lishes Section 2593 Public Awareness Campaign for Maternal Depression and provides that such campaign shall educate the public and maternal health care providers about the risks and remedies associated with maternal depression. Section 2 amends the state finance law by adding a new section 97-pppp that creates a maternal depression fund. Section 3 appropriates the sum of 20 million dollars to the Department of Health to support the Public Awareness Campaign for Maternal Depression. Section 4 provides that this act shall take effect immediately.   JUSTIFICATION: Information obtained from the New York State Department of Health indi- cates that 10-20% of new mothers suffer from maternal depression, including periods of sadness, anxiety, fatigue and thoughts of death or suicide. For more than 1 out of every 1,000 new mothers the maternal depression they experience - also known as postpartum depression includes more severe symptoms such as postpartum psychosis that can lead to hallucinations and mania. A little diagnosed medical condition, maternal depression is believed to have contributed to the deaths of three infants who were allegedly killed by their mothers in separate incidents that took place in New York City in the late summer and early fall of 2015. The enactment of the Infant Safety Act of 2015 will mark approval of the first statewide program of its kind in New York's history and will provide an unprecedented commitment of public resources to address this serious public health issue.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2016 - Referred to Health   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: $20 million   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
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A01697 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1697
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law and the state finance law, in
          relation to establishing a  public  awareness  campaign  for  maternal
          depression and making an appropriation therefor

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding  a
     2  new title 7 to read as follows:
     3                                    TITLE 7
     4                             MATERNAL DEPRESSION
     5  Section 2593. Public awareness campaign for maternal depression.
     6    §  2593.  Public  awareness campaign for maternal depression. There is
     7  hereby established within the department a maternal depression awareness
     8  program to educate the public and maternal health care  providers  about
     9  the risks and remedies associated with maternal depression.
    10    §  2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 97-pppp
    11  to read as follows:
    12    § 97-pppp. Maternal depression fund. 1. There is hereby established in
    13  the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of taxa-
    14  tion and finance a fund to be known as the "maternal depression fund".
    15    2. The fund shall consist of all monies appropriated for its  purpose,
    16  and all monies required by any provision of law to be paid into or cred-
    17  ited to such fund. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the department
    18  of  health  from receiving grants, gifts or bequests for the purposes of
    19  the fund as defined in this section and depositing them  into  the  fund
    20  according to law.
    21    3.  Monies  shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
    22  the state comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the  commis-
    23  sioner of health.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06706-01-7

        A. 1697                             2
 
     1    §  3. The sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) is hereby appro-
     2  priated to the department of health out of any moneys in the state trea-
     3  sury in the general fund to the credit of the  state  purposes  account,
     4  not  otherwise  appropriated,  and  made  immediately available, for the
     5  purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be
     6  payable  on  the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certi-
     7  fied or approved by the commissioner of health in the manner  prescribed
     8  by law.
     9    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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