Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act and requires hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program
What changed between versions
Added new sponsors (Meeks, Simone, Raga, Tapia, Cruz, Otis) and updated the bill's procedural history to reflect it was amended and recommitted to the Health Committee.
Replaced the original Title IX with a new Section 2803-nn that specifically requires hospitals to mandate annual, evidence-based implicit bias training for all clinical staff providing perinatal care.
Removed provisions regarding patient written rights and death certificate information, replacing them with a requirement for the Department of Health to track and publish data on severe maternal morbidity and pregnancy-related deaths.
Changed the required training curriculum to include specific topics such as identifying unconscious biases, historical oppression, cultural identity, and reproductive justice.
Established a new reporting schedule requiring the Department of Health to publish severe maternal morbidity data every two years and pregnancy-related death data every three years, with specific requirements for regional aggregation and racial/ethnic disaggregation.
Simplified the definitions section to focus only on 'implicit bias' and 'perinatal care' rather than including broader terms like 'implicit prejudice' and 'implicit stereotypes'.