New York S 7012: Requires health care providers facilitate a screening for maternal depression within the first six weeks of a person giving birth

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S07012 Summary:

BILL NOS07012 

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SAME ASSAME AS A07448

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SPONSORSCARCELLA-SPANTON

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COSPNSRCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2500-k, Pub Health L; amd §§3216, 3221, 4303 & 3217-g, Ins L

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Requires health care providers facilitate a screening for maternal depression, unless refused by the birth mother, within the first six weeks of birth and that such screening be covered by insurance.

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BILL NOS07012 

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03/28/2025REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7012

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 28, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the insurance law, in relation
 to requiring maternal depression screenings and that such screenings
 are covered by insurance

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 2500-k of the public health law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
 3 3-a. Maternal depression screenings. (a) A health care provider shall
 4 facilitate a screening for maternal depression within the first six
 5 weeks of birth in accordance with the guidance developed under subdivi-
 6 sion three of this section.
 7 (b)(i) If such patient declines to be screened for depression within
 8 the first six weeks of having given birth, the health care provider
 9 shall record in such patient's medical records that such patient was not
 10 screened for depression based upon the refusal by such patient. Such
 11 refusal shall not be the basis for any action taken against a patient or
 12 any denial of care or services.
 13 (ii) The record of a patient's refusal of a depression screening shall
 14 relieve such health care provider of liability under section sixty-five
 15 hundred thirty of the education law.
 16 § 2. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection (i)
 17 of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws
 18 of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
 19 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
 20 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding,
 21 depression screenings in accordance with subdivision three-a of section
 22 twenty-five hundred-k of the public health law, and the performance of
 23 any necessary maternal and newborn clinical assessments.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01553-02-5

 S. 7012 2

 1 § 3. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 5 of subsection (k) of
 2 section 3221 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws of
 3 1996, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
 5 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding,
 6 depression screenings in accordance with subdivision three-a of section
 7 twenty-five hundred-k of the public health law, and the performance of
 8 any necessary maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
 9 § 4. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 4303
 10 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 661 of the laws of 1997, is
 11 amended to read as follows:
 12 (B) Maternity care coverage also shall include, at minimum, parent
 13 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding,
 14 depression screenings in accordance with subdivision three-a of section
 15 twenty-five hundred-k of the public health law, and the performance of
 16 any necessary maternal and newborn clinical assessments.
 17 § 5. Section 3217-g of the insurance law, as added by chapter 199 of
 18 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
 19 § 3217-g. Maternal depression screenings. [To the extent a policy
 20 provides coverage for maternal depression screening, no] No insurer
 21 subject to this article shall by cont