Int 0651-2024
Requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to create and distribute materials identifying mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss.
IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addictionintroduced 2024-03-07Local Law 2024/100
Enacted as Local Law 2024/100.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2024-03-07Passed: 2024-10-26Enacted: 2024-10-26
Summary
This bill would require the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to create materials that provide information about the effects of pregnancy loss on mental health and identify mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss. The Commissioner would be required to distribute physical copies of these materials to all facilities operated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that provide reproductive healthcare and to post electronic copies on the department’s website. Additionally, the Commissioner must, to the extent practicable, inform family planning clinics within the city and hospital departments primarily providing reproductive healthcare about the availability of these materials and make physical copies available to them upon request.
Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (issues of mental health, developmental disability and addiction services) and Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities.
How it compares
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22 passed · 28 died
This bill: 202 days in committee
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Sponsors (27)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-03-07 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2024-06-25 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2024-06-25 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2024-06-25 · Committee on Women and Gender Equity
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2024-06-25 · Committee on Women and Gender Equity
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2024-09-26 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2024-09-26 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
ActionAmended by Committee
2024-09-26 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2024-09-26 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
AdvancedApproved by Council
2024-09-26 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2024-09-26 · City Council
AdvancedCity Charter Rule Adopted
2024-10-26 · Administration
ActionReturned Unsigned by Mayor
2024-10-28 · City Council
Votes (8)
Aye (6)
Farah N. LouisKristy MarmoratoTiffany L. CabánShahana K. HanifLinda LeeShaun Abreu
Absent (2)
Darlene MealyErik D. Bottcher
Heard at (5)
City Council · 2024-09-26 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction · 2024-09-26 · 10:30 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction · 2024-06-25 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Women and Gender Equity · 2024-06-25 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2024-03-07 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (19)
- Summary of Int. No. 651-A
- Summary of Int. No. 651
- Int. No. 651
- March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 7, 2024
- Committee Report 6/25/24
- Hearing Testimony 6/25/24
- Hearing Transcript 6/25/24
- Proposed Int. No. 651-A - 9/19/24
- Committee Report 9/26/24
- Hearing Transcript 9/26/24
- September 26, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-26-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 26, 2024
- Int. No. 651-A (FINAL)
- Fiscal Impact Statement
- Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
- Local Law 100
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 17-199.21 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 108 for the year 2023, is redesignated section 17-199.26.
� 2. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.26.1 to read as follows:
� 17-199.26.1 Mental health materials for individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Designated citywide languages. The term "designated citywide languages" has the same meaning as set forth in subdivision a of section 23-1101.
Pregnancy loss. The term "pregnancy loss" means the loss of a fetus by miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination.
b. The commissioner shall create materials that contain information about the effects of pregnancy loss on mental health and that identify mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss. The department shall make such materials available in the designated citywide languages and shall review and update such materials as appropriate.
c. The commissioner shall distribute physical copies of the materials created pursuant to subdivision b of this section to all facilities operated by the department in which reproductive healthcare is provided and post electronic copies of such materials on the department's website. The commissioner shall, to the extent practicable, inform the following entities about the availability of such materials and make physical copies of such materials available to such entities upon request:
1. Family planning clinics within the city, for distribution to patients that may benefit from such materials at the discretion of each clinic; and
2. Hospital departments where the primary purpose is the provision of reproductive healthcare, for distribution to patients that may benefit from such materials at the discretion of each hospital.
� 3. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.
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