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2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2500-K - Maternal Depression.

§  2500-k.  Maternal  depression.  1.  Definitions.  As  used  in this
section:
(a)  "Maternal  depression"  means  a  wide  range  of  emotional  and
psychological reactions a woman may experience during pregnancy or after
childbirth.  These  reactions  may  include,  but  are  not  limited to,
feelings of despair or extreme guilt, prolonged sadness, lack of energy,
difficulty concentrating, fatigue,  extreme  changes  in  appetite,  and
thoughts  of  suicide  or  of  harming the baby. Maternal depression may
include prenatal depression, the "baby blues," postpartum depression, or
postpartum psychosis -- the severest form.
(b) "Maternal health care provider" means a physician, midwife,  nurse
practitioner,  or physician assistant, or other health care practitioner
acting within his or her lawful scope of practice, attending a  pregnant
woman  or  a  woman  up  to  one  year  after  childbirth,  including  a
practitioner  attending  the  woman's  child  up  to  one   year   after
childbirth.
2.   Maternal   depression   information.  (a)  The  commissioner,  in
consultation  with  the  commissioner  of  mental  health,  shall   make
available  to  maternal  health  care  providers information on maternal
depression. The information shall include, but not be limited to:
(i) a summary of the current evidence base and professional guidelines
for maternal depression screening;
(ii)  validated,  evidence-based   tools   for   maternal   depression
screening;
(iii) information about follow-up support for patients who may require
further  evaluation,  referral,  or treatment including, when available,
information about specific community resources and entities licensed  by
the office of mental health; and
(iv) information on engaging support for the mother, which may include
communicating  with  the  other  parent  of  the  child and other family
members, as appropriate and consistent with patient confidentiality.
(b) The information on maternal depression  shall  be  posted  on  the
department's  website. The commissioner shall, in collaboration with the
commissioner of mental health, update  and  review  the  information  on
maternal depression, as necessary.
3.  Maternal  depression  treatment. The commissioner, in consultation
with the commissioner of mental health, shall:
(a) inform providers of the need to  raise  awareness  about  maternal
depression; and
(b)  provide  information  on  the  department's  and office of mental
health's websites regarding how to locate available providers who  treat
or  provide  support  for maternal depression including, but not limited
to, mental health  professionals,  other  licensed  professionals,  peer
support, not-for-profit corporations and other community resources.
4.  The commissioner shall make any regulations necessary to implement
this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2500-L - Pregnant People, Blood Test for Hepatitis C Virus (Hcv); Follow-Up Care.

§  2500-l.  Pregnant  people,  blood test for hepatitis C virus (HCV);
  follow-up care. 1. Every  physician  or  other  authorized  practitioner
  attending a pregnant person in the state shall order a hepatitis C virus
  (HCV)  screening  test and if the test is reactive, an HCV RNA test must
  be performed on the same specimen, or a second specimen collected at the
  same time as  the  initial  HCV  screening  test  specimen,  to  confirm
  diagnosis  of  current  infection. The health care provider shall either
  offer all persons with a detectable HCV RNA test  follow-up  HCV  health
  care and treatment or refer the individual to a health care provider who
  can provide follow-up HCV health care and treatment.
2. The physician or other authorized practitioner attending a pregnant
  person  shall  record  the  HCV test results prominently in the pregnant
  person's medical record at or before the time of hospital admission  for
  delivery.
3.  The  commissioner may promulgate such rules and regulations as are
  necessary to carry out the requirements of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2501 - Health and Welfare Services to All Children; Duty of Local Boards.

§  2501.  Health  and  welfare services to all children; duty of local
  boards.  1. The local board of health or  similar  health  authority  of
  each  local  health  district  shall provide children who attend schools
  other than public with all or any of the health and welfare services and
  facilities, including but not  limited  to  health,  surgical,  medical,
  dental  and  therapeutic  care  and  treatment  and  corrective aids and
  appliances,  authorized  by  law  and  now  granted  or  hereafter  made
  available  by such local board of health or similar health authority for
  or to children in the public schools in so far  as  these  services  and
  facilities may be requested by the authorities of the schools other than
  public.
2.  Any  services or facilities provided pursuant to the provisions of
  this section shall be so provided notwithstanding any provision  of  any
  charter or other provision of law inconsistent herewith.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2502 - Report of Certain Conditions.

§  2502.  Report  of certain conditions.   Any nurse-midwife, nurse or
  other person having the care of an infant within the age  of  two  weeks
  who  neglects or omits to report immediately to the health officer or to
  a legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town or  place
  where  such  child is being cared for, the fact that one or both eyes of
  such infant are inflammed or reddened whenever such shall be  the  case,
  or  who applies any remedy therefor without the advice, or except by the
  direction of such officer or physician is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2503 - Drug Information to Be Furnished Expectant Mothers.

§  2503.  Drug  information  to  be furnished expectant mothers.   The
  physician or nurse-midwife to be in attendance at the birth of  a  child
  shall inform the expectant mother, in advance of the birth, of the drugs
  that  such physician or nurse-midwife expects to employ during pregnancy
  and  of  the  obstetrical  and  other  drugs  that  such  physician   or
  nurse-midwife  expects to employ at birth and of the possible effects of
  such drugs on the child and mother.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2504-A - Hepatitis B Immunization of a Minor.

§  2504-a.  Hepatitis  B  immunization  of  a  minor. 1. A health care
practitioner may administer immunization against hepatitis B to a person
under the age of eighteen years without the consent or knowledge of  the
parents  or  guardian  of  said  person,  if said person has capacity to
consent and consents to the immunization, and said person is housed in a
state or local correctional facility.
2. For the purposes of this section:
(a) the term "health care practitioner" shall mean a person  licensed,
certified  or  otherwise authorized to practice under title eight of the
education law, acting within his or her lawful scope of practice; and
(b) the term "capacity to consent" shall mean an individual's ability,
determined without regard to the individual's  age,  to  understand  and
appreciate the nature and consequences of the proposed immunization, and
to make an informed decision concerning the immunization.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2504-B - Information Concerning Pelvic Exams.

§  2504-b.  Information  concerning pelvic exams. 1. On or before July
first,  two  thousand  twenty-two,  the  department  shall  develop   an
informational  pamphlet  for patients undergoing pelvic examinations. In
developing  the  pamphlet,  the  department  shall  consult  with  state
professional societies representing physicians in general, obstetricians
and  gynecologists,  family  practice  physicians,  nurse practitioners,
physician assistants and midwives. The pamphlet shall include but not be
limited to information concerning, the following:
(a) what a pelvic exam is and how it is properly performed;
(b) if applicable, a description of other relevant exams;
(c) privacy expectations, including that privacy  should  be  provided
for  the  patient both when undressing and dressing and that a gown or a
drape should be provided;
(d) an explanation of what a speculum is and how it should be properly
used during an examination;
(e) that  gloves  should  be  worn  by  the  practitioner  during  the
examination; and
(f)  a telephone number for the office of professional medical conduct
in the department and  the  office  of  the  professions  in  the  state
education  department, at which a patient may report any misconduct that
the patient feels may have occurred.
2. The informational pamphlet shall  be  made  available  for  use  by
practitioners. The informational pamphlet shall be posted as a printable
file  on  the  department's  internet  website,  and  may  also  be made
available for  order  as  a  printed  deliverable  on  the  department's
internet website.
3. The informational pamphlet shall be written in layperson's language
and  shall  be  made  available  in  English  and  the  six  most common
non-English  languages  spoken  by  individuals  with  limited   English
proficiency in New York state as based on the most recent census.
4.  A  practitioner may provide the patient the informational pamphlet
developed pursuant to this section.
5. For purposes of this section, "practitioner" means  a  health  care
professional  licensed,  certified,  or otherwise authorized to practice
under the education law, acting within the scope of practice.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2505 - Human Breast Milk; Collection, Storage and Distribution; General Powers of the Commissioner.

§  2505.  Human  breast  milk;  collection,  storage and distribution;
general powers of the commissioner. The commissioner is hereby empowered
to:
(a) adopt regulations and guidelines including,  but  not  limited  to
donor  standards,  methods of collection, and standards for storage, and
distribution of human breast milk;
(b) conduct educational activities to inform  the  public  and  health
care  providers  of  the  availability  of human breast milk for infants
determined to require such milk and to inform potential  donors  of  the
opportunities for proper donation;
(c)   conduct  educational  activities  to  encourage  and  facilitate
employers and child day care centers to establish environments  that  do
not  discourage  breastfeeding  and  the  provision of breast milk. Such
environments  may  include  sanitary  locations  for  breastfeeding  and
refrigerators  to  assist  in  breastfeeding  and  feeding  babies  with
expressed breast milk; and
(d) establish rules and regulations to effectuate  the  provisions  of
this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2505-B - Lactation Accommodations in Airports.

§  2505-b.  Lactation  accommodations  in  airports.  1.  The terminal
operator of a commercial service airport owned or operated by a  county,
city, town, village, or state or local authority that has one million or
more  enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each
airport passenger terminal behind the airport  security  screening  area
for  members  of the public to express breast milk in private that meets
the following conditions:
(a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
(b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom; and
(c) upon completion of the construction of a new  passenger  terminal,
or  the  replacement,  expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger
terminal, includes a sink.
2. The terminal operator of a  commercial  service  airport  owned  or
operated  by  a county, city, town, village, or state or local authority
that has fewer than one million, but more than ten thousand enplanements
a year shall, upon completion of the construction  of  a  new  passenger
terminal,  or  the  replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing
passenger terminal, provide a room or other  location  at  each  airport
passenger  terminal  behind  the  airport  security  screening  area for
members of the public to express breast milk in private that  meets  the
following conditions:
(a) includes, at a minimum, a chair, a sink, and an electrical outlet;
and
(b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
3.  As  used  in  this  section,  "renovation of an existing passenger
terminal" means the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of  the
space in the passenger terminal.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2507 - Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children; Specialty Formula.

§  2507. Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and
children; specialty formula.
1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section:
(a) "WIC" shall mean the special supplemental  nutrition  program  for
women, infants and children;
(b)  "WIC  food  vendor"  shall mean a business entity that operates a
retail delivery system that is authorized  by  the  department  to  sell
products covered by WIC to individuals under the WIC program; and
(c)  "Specialty  formula" shall mean specifically formulated nutrition
products  prescribed  for  medically  fragile  WIC   participants   with
qualifying medical conditions.
2.  Every  WIC  food  vendor  shall  be authorized to sell any product
covered under WIC, including specialty formula, in accordance  with  the
WIC  vendor  type  as  designated by the department, unless specifically
limited or barred by the  commissioner  pursuant  to  state  or  federal
regulations.    The  commissioner  is  authorized  to establish criteria
defining which WIC food vendors can sell  specialty  formula.  Any  such
criteria   shall  not  be  applied  arbitrarily  and  shall  ensure  WIC
participant  access  to  specialty  formula.  The   commissioner   shall
establish  a process to address individual cases where there is evidence
of inadequate WIC participant access.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2508 - Newborn Health and Safe Sleep Study.

§   2508.  Newborn  health  and  safe  sleep  study.  There  shall  be
  established in the department, by the commissioner, a newborn health and
  safe sleep study designed to reduce infant mortality  rates  across  the
  state  and  enhance existing strategies to improve safe sleep practices.
  The department, in consultation with health care  providers,  hospitals,
  safe  sleep  product  manufacturers, provider groups, the New York state
  office of children and family services, and any other person  or  entity
  the   commissioner  deems  necessary,  shall  conduct  a  study  on  the
  effectiveness of existing safe sleep practices and  identify  additional
  safe sleep practices that reduce infant mortality rates. The study shall
  include  a  review of baby boxes and other products aimed at encouraging
  safe and healthy sleep practices. The department  shall  report  to  the
  legislature  within  twelve months of the effective date of this section
  on the results of this study. Within twelve months after the  completion
  of  the  study,  the  department  shall conduct a pilot program aimed at
  improving caregiver education and  continued  safe  sleep  practices  in
  counties  or  areas  with  high  infant  mortality rates, and also shall
  pursue available  funding  options  and  make  efforts  to  establish  a
  public-private  partnership  with organizations that promote such causes
  or manufacture such products in order to seek to  obtain  donations  for
  these purposes.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2509-A - Corded Window Blind Leaflet.

§   2509-a.   Corded   window  blind  leaflet.  The  commissioner,  in
  consultation with  the  secretary  of  state,  shall  create  a  leaflet
  regarding  the  danger  that  corded  window  blinds  pose  to  children
  including proper installation of blinds, examples of  current  standards
  and  the potential fatal consequences from strangulation posed by corded
  window blinds. Such leaflet shall be posted on the department's  website
  in  a  printable format to allow each pediatric primary care provider to
  provide the leaflet to parents at a child's six month well child visit.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2509-C - Availability of Adverse Childhood Experiences Services.

§  2509-c.  Availability  of  adverse  childhood experiences services.
  Every pediatrics health care provider licensed pursuant to  article  one
  hundred thirty-one of the education law shall be required to provide the
  parent,  guardian,  custodian  or other authorized individual of a child
  that the pediatrician sees in their official capacity, with  educational
  materials developed pursuant to subdivision two of section three hundred
  seventy-c  of  the  social  services law. Such materials may be provided
  electronically and shall be  used  to  inform  and  educate  them  about
  adverse  childhood experiences, the importance of protective factors and
  the availability of services for children at risk  for  or  experiencing
  adverse childhood experiences.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1-B - Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Services Program › 2515 - Definitions.

§  2515.  Definitions.  For  the  purposes of this title the following
  definitions shall apply:
1. "Eligible adolescent" means a person aged twenty-one or  under  who
  is at risk of becoming a parent, is pregnant, or is a parent.
2. "Services for eligible adolescents" means those services, including
  but  not  limited  to: vocational and educational counseling, job skills
  training, family life and parenting education, life skills  development,
  coordination, case management, primary preventive health care, pregnancy
  and  child  nutrition  counseling  for  expectant  mothers  to  curb the
  incidence of childhood obesity, family planning, social and recreational
  programs, child  care,  outreach  and  advocacy,  follow-up  on  service
  utilization,  crisis  intervention,  and  efforts to stimulate community
  interest and involvement.
3. "Community council" means a group of volunteers responsible for the
  development of the community service project plan which, to  the  extent
  possible,  represents  the  needs  and values of the community and which
  includes  representatives  of  the   following   community   groups   or
  organizations:  community residents, including youths; local government;
  the business community; service providers, including agencies  providing
  vocational,  housing  services,  child  care  agencies serving youth and
  youth services agencies;  charitable  organizations;  health  providers;
  educational   institutions;  family  planning  agencies;  and  community
  networks and coalitions.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1-B - Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Services Program › 2515-A - Administration.

§  2515-a.  Administration. 1. The department is authorized to request
and receive community service  project  plans,  as  defined  in  section
twenty-five  hundred  fifteen-b  of  this  title. Such projects shall be
limited to a twelve month duration but may, with the  approval  of  such
department,  be  renewed  for  additional  periods based on demonstrated
effectiveness, need, and availability of  funds.  The  department  shall
offer  technical assistance to applicants for and operators of community
service projects. Technical assistance shall be provided for, but  shall
not  be  limited  to, the following activities: development of community
service  plans,  overall   program   planning,   contract   development,
budgeting, and designing local client-specific data collection systems.
2.  The  department shall review such community service project plans.
The commissioner, within appropriations made therefor, may approve  such
plans  for  funding  in accordance with the provisions of this title. In
approving or disapproving the funding of such  plans,  the  commissioner
shall  only  approve  projects  which meet the requirements set forth in
section twenty-five hundred fifteen-b of this  title  which  demonstrate
clear  coordinating  activities with local social services districts and
other available city, school, county, state or federally funded programs
and shall give priority to projects which:
(a)  stress  the  development  and  expansion  of  primary  prevention
programs  aimed at decreasing the incidence of adolescent pregnancy, and
the establishment of a comprehensive and coordinated approach to prevent
initial and repeated pregnancy and to deal  more  effectively  with  the
consequences associated with adolescent parenting;
(b)  serve a geographic area where there is a large number of eligible
adolescents, or a high rate of adolescent pregnancy;
(c) serve a geographic area where the incidence of  infant  mortality,
low  birth  weight  infants,  childhood  obesity  and  the prevalence of
low-income families are high and where the availability or accessibility
of services for eligible adolescents is low;
(d) utilize existing community resources; and
(e) maximize the use of federal, or other  state,  private  and  local
resources.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1-B - Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Services Program › 2515-B - Community Service Project Plans.

§  2515-b.  Community  service  project  plans. 1. Plans for community
service projects may be submitted to the  department  by  not-for-profit
agencies  or  by  county  or  municipal  governments, or any subdivision
thereof. Such plan shall:
(a) include  a  statement  of  project  goals  and  objectives  and  a
description  of  the  services  to  be  provided  to meet such goals and
objectives;
(b) identify the geographic area to be served,  which  may  include  a
county,  municipality  or  any  subdivision thereof, or a combination of
counties, municipalities or subdivisions thereof;
(c) identify the prevalence and incidence of adolescent pregnancy  and
parenting  and  related  problems  to be addressed by the project in the
geographic area; and a description, by number  and  characteristics,  of
the project's target population to be served;
(d)  describe  the  services currently available to serve the eligible
adolescents which may help reinforce the goals  and  objectives  of  the
community service project;
(e) describe how services for eligible adolescents will be coordinated
within  such  project  plans,  and  efforts to be made to improve client
access to such services by improving interagency cooperation and program
coordination;
(f) describe how the project funds received  pursuant  to  this  title
shall be used;
(g)  describe the community's involvement in the project plan, and the
involvement of relevant agencies and appropriate groups involved  within
such project plan;
(h)  describe how the proposed services are relevant to the population
being served; and
(i) describe the method to be used to evaluate  and  report  upon  the
effectiveness   of  the  community  service  project  funded  under  the
provisions of this title.
2. The community service  project  plan  shall  be  developed  by  the
community  council  which  shall  direct the activities of the community
service project. The community council shall select a lead agency  which
shall  be  responsible  for  the administration of the community service
project. The community council shall select and approve the  funding  of
subcontractors pursuant to this title for the purpose of the development
of the community service project plan.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 1-B - Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Services Program › 2515-C - Use of Funds.

§ 2515-c. Use of funds. 1. Subject to amounts made available therefor,
  such  funds  shall  be  made available for up to seventy-five percent of
  approved  community  service  project  plan  expenditures  after   first
  deducting  therefrom  any federal or other state funds received or to be
  received on account thereof. The remaining twenty-five percent  cost  of
  such plan may be met by local governmental or private funds, services or
  property.  The commissioner, within his or her discretion, may, however,
  waive the twenty-five percent requirement for the  year  if  he  or  she
  determines  that  a plan, which otherwise meets the requirements of this
  title, is unable  to  obtain  local  governmental  or  private  funding,
  services  or property. Any such waiver shall be requested upon submittal
  of such plan to the commissioner. No more than five percent of the funds
  approved under this article shall be  retained  by  the  department  for
  administrative and evaluation purposes.
2.  Funds  granted  to  not-for-profit  corporations  or  governmental
  entities pursuant to the adolescent pregnancy  prevention  and  services
  program  shall  not  be  used  to supplant other federal, state or local
  funds.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2 - Prenatal Care › 2522 - Programs; Powers of the Commissioner.

§  2522.  Programs;  powers  of  the commissioner. In order to promote
comprehensive prenatal care, the commissioner is authorized  to  provide
funds,    including   the   awarding   of   grants   to   not-for-profit
community-based  organizations,   local   health   departments,   public
education   organizations   and  such  other  organizations  as  may  be
designated by the commissioner, for public and  provider  education  and
outreach,  home  visiting,  referral  of pregnant women to prenatal care
providers, and improvement of regional systems of perinatal  care.  This
education, outreach, home visiting, referral and systems improvement may
include, but is not limited to:
(a) public education concerning availability of prenatal services;
(b) promotion of community awareness of the benefits to the mother and
child of preconception health and early and continuous prenatal care;
(c)   outreach  and  direct  recruitment  of  service  recipients  and
providers;
(d) referrals and linkage to organizations providing  assistance  with
applications  for  medical assistance and enrollment in Medicaid managed
care programs;
(e) referrals and linkage  with  home  visiting  and  other  community
services;
(e-1)  health and nutritional education and services for both parents,
regarding childhood and adult obesity and asthma, and the prevention  or
mitigation thereof;
(f) follow-up of patient participation in prenatal care services;
(g)  identification  of regional perinatal health care system barriers
and limitations that lead to poor perinatal outcomes and development  of
strategies to address such barriers and limitations; and
(h)  coordination of service delivery by community-based organizations
among health care providers and health plans  using  health  information
technology and uniform screening criteria for perinatal risk.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2 - Prenatal Care › 2531 - Children and Recovering Mothers Program.

§   2531.   Children   and  recovering  mothers  program.  Subject  to
  appropriation, the commissioner, in consultation with  the  commissioner
  of  alcoholism  and substance abuse services, is authorized to establish
  the  children  and  recovering  mothers  program,  a  program  aimed  at
  providing  health  care providers, hospitals and midwifery birth centers
  with guidance, education and assistance when providing care to expectant
  mothers with a substance use disorder. Such program shall:
1. Provide information to  both  health  care  providers  as  well  as
  expectant  mothers  regarding  use  of medication assisted treatment for
  pregnant women, which shall include information regarding buprenorphrine
  training, tools for providers on effective management of  women  with  a
  substance  use  disorder  during  pregnancy,  and  a  referral  list  of
  providers in the area;
2.  Provide  guidance  and  referral  information  for  substance  use
  disorder  services,  home  visiting  services  and  other  benefits  and
  services that they may be eligible for while expecting and after birth;
3. Develop a  system  for  rapid  consultation  and  referral  linkage
  services  for  obstetricians  and  primary  care providers statewide who
  provide care for expectant mothers with substance use disorders;
4. Provide guidance on the identification of  signs  and  symptoms  of
  substance use disorder in expectant mothers; and
5. Anything else deemed necessary to implement the program.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2 - Prenatal Care › 2532 - Workgroup.

§   2532.   Workgroup.  The  commissioner,  in  conjunction  with  the
  commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services, shall convene a
  workgroup of stakeholders, including  but  not  limited  to,  hospitals,
  local  health  departments,  obstetricians, midwives, pediatricians, and
  substance use disorder providers to  study  and  evaluate  barriers  and
  challenges  in  identifying and treating expectant mothers, newborns and
  new parents with a substance use disorder. The workgroup shall report on
  its findings and recommendations to the commissioner,  the  commissioner
  of  alcoholism and substance abuse services, the speaker of the assembly
  and the temporary president  of  the  senate  within  one  year  of  the
  effective date of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2540 - Establishment of Early Intervention Program.

§  2540.  Establishment  of  early  intervention  program.    There is
  established an early intervention program under  the  administration  of
  the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2543 - Service Coordinators.

§   2543.   Service  coordinators.  1.  Upon  referral  to  the  early
  intervention official of a child thought to be an eligible  child  by  a
  parent  or  professional, the early intervention official shall promptly
  designate an initial service coordinator, selecting whenever appropriate
  a service coordinator who has an established relationship with the child
  or family, and shall promptly notify the parent of such designation.
2. The initial service coordinator shall promptly  arrange  a  contact
  with  the parent after such designation, provided that such contact must
  be in a time, place and manner reasonably convenient for the parent  and
  consistent with the timeliness requirements of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2546 - Interim Services.

§  2546.  Interim  services.    1.  Early intervention services for an
eligible child and the child's family may commence before the completion
of  the  evaluation  and  assessment  in  sections  twenty-five  hundred
forty-four  and  twenty-five  hundred  forty-five  of this title, if the
following conditions are met:
(a) Parental consent is obtained;
(b) An interim IFSP is developed that includes:  (i)  the  name  of  a
service  coordinator  who  will be responsible for implementation of the
interim IFSP and coordination with other agencies and persons; and  (ii)
the  early  intervention services that have been determined to be needed
immediately by the child and the child's family; and
(c) The evaluation and assessment are completed within forty-five days
from the date  the  early  intervention  official  was  first  contacted
regarding the child.
2.  The costs that an approved provider of early intervention services
incurs in providing such interim services shall be approved costs to the
extent they are otherwise consistent with  section  twenty-five  hundred
fifty-five of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2547 - Respite Services.

§  2547.  Respite  services. 1. Subject to the availability of federal
  funds, the commissioner shall allocate  a  portion  of  such  funds  for
  respite  services  for  families  of eligible children. The commissioner
  shall establish criteria for selecting families for such services, which
  may include the severity of the child's disability, the availability  of
  respite   services  to  the  family  through  other  programs,  and  the
  availability of informal supports to the family.
2. In addition to respite services provided  pursuant  to  subdivision
  one  of  this  section and subject to the amounts appropriated therefor,
  the state shall  reimburse  the  municipality  in  accordance  with  the
  percentage of state aid reimbursement for approved costs as set forth in
  subdivision  two  of  section  twenty-five  hundred  fifty-seven of this
  title, for the costs of respite services provided to  eligible  children
  and their families with the approval of the early intervention official.
3. The commissioner shall contact the appropriate federal governmental
  agencies  and  personnel to facilitate the availability of federal funds
  for respite services.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2547-A - Day Care Support Services.

§  2547-a. Day care support services.  The commissioner shall allocate
  up to one million dollars of federal funds for purposes of  establishing
  two or more demonstration programs for the provision of day care support
  services   for   eligible   children   which  may  include  the  use  of
  paraprofessionals to work with one or more  children  with  disabilities
  within  the  same  setting. The commissioner, in consultation with other
  appropriate state agencies, shall establish criteria for  the  selection
  of  demonstration sites for such services, such criteria to include, but
  not be limited to, geographic distribution, the disability  severity  of
  children  to be served by such a program and the availability of similar
  services from other sources.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2548 - Transition Plan.

§  2548.  Transition  plan.  To  the  extent  that  a  toddler  with a
  disability is thought to be eligible for services  pursuant  to  section
  forty-four  hundred  ten  of  the education law, the service coordinator
  shall notify in writing the committee on preschool special education  of
  the  local  school  district  in  which an eligible child resides of the
  potential transition of such child and, with parental  consent,  arrange
  for  a  conference  among  the  service  coordinator, the parent and the
  chairperson of the preschool committee on special education  or  his  or
  her  designee  at  least ninety days before such child would be eligible
  for services under section forty-four hundred ten of the  education  law
  to  review  the  child's  program  options and to establish a transition
  plan, if appropriate. If a parent does not consent to a conference  with
  the  service  coordinator and the chairperson of the preschool committee
  on special education or his or her designee  to  determine  whether  the
  child  should  be referred for services under section forty-four hundred
  ten of the education law, and the child is not determined to be eligible
  by the committee on preschool special education for such services  prior
  to  the  child's  third  birthday,  the  child's  eligibility  for early
  intervention program services shall end at the child's third birthday.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2552 - Responsibility of Municipality.

§  2552. Responsibility of municipality. 1. Each municipality shall be
  responsible for ensuring that the early intervention services  contained
  in  an  IFSP  are  provided  to eligible children and their families who
  reside in such municipality.  A  municipality  may  monitor,  which  may
  include  site  visitation,  evaluators  and  providers  of such services
  within the municipality in accordance with this  title  and  regulations
  promulgated  hereunder, including making the determinations specified in
  this section. The service coordinator shall  report,  in  a  manner  and
  format as determined by the municipality, on the delivery of services to
  an  eligible  child  in  accordance  with  the  eligible child's IFSP. A
  municipality  may  request  that  the  parent  select  a   new   service
  coordinator  or  require  that  the  service  coordinator  select  a new
  provider  of  services  if  the  municipality  finds  that  the  service
  coordinator  has  not  been  performing  his  or her responsibilities as
  required by this title or  that  services  have  not  been  provided  in
  accordance  with  the  eligible  child's IFSP. If the early intervention
  official determines that the evaluator has not followed the requirements
  in  this  title  or  regulations  promulgated   hereunder,   the   early
  intervention  official may require that the evaluator immediately submit
  additional documentation to support the  eligibility  determination.  If
  the  evaluator  does  not  provide  the  requested documentation, or the
  documentation  provided  continues   to   be   inconsistent   with   the
  requirements  of  this  title  or  regulations,  the  early intervention
  official can require that the parent select another evaluator to conduct
  a multidisciplinary evaluation to  determine  whether  the  child  meets
  eligibility for program services.
2.  The  early intervention official shall require an eligible child's
  parent to furnish the parents'  and  eligible  child's  social  security
  numbers   for   the  purpose  of  the  department's  and  municipality's
  administration of the program.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2554 - Local Early Intervention Coordinating Councils.

§  2554.  Local  early intervention coordinating councils.  1. A local
early intervention coordinating council shall  be  established  in  each
municipality.  The  council  shall  consist  of members appointed by the
early intervention official. At least four members of each council shall
be parents of infants or toddlers with disabilities or of children  aged
three  through twelve with disabilities. Each council shall also include
at least  three  public  or  private  providers  of  early  intervention
services,  at  least  one child care provider or representative of child
care providers, the chief executive officers or their designees  of  the
municipality's   departments  of  social  services,  health  and  mental
hygiene, a representative  from  the  local  developmental  disabilities
services  office  and  a  representative  from one or more committees on
preschool  special  education  of  local   school   districts   in   the
municipality.  A  local  body  which has been previously constituted may
serve this purpose if it has the appropriate members.  The commissioner,
in his or her discretion,  may  waive  one  or  more  of  the  foregoing
membership  composition  requirements in those municipalities where such
requirements cannot reasonably be met.
2. The local early intervention coordinating council  shall  meet,  in
open  forum,  at  least  four  times  a  year for its first two years of
existence.
3. The council shall advise the early intervention official regarding:
(a)  the  planning  for,  delivery  and  assessment   of   the   early
intervention   services   for  eligible  children  and  their  families,
including the transition from early intervention  services  to  services
and  programs  under section forty-four hundred ten of the education law
and other early childhood programs;
(b) the identification of service delivery reforms needed  to  promote
the   availability   of   early  intervention  services  within  natural
environments;
(c) the coordination of public and private agencies; and
(d) such other matters relating to  early  intervention  policies  and
procedures  within  the  municipality as are brought to its attention by
parents, providers, public agencies or others.
4. The council will report annually to the early intervention official
on  the  adequacy  of  the  early  intervention  system  to  ensure  the
availability  of  family  centered,  coordinated services; and interface
with other existing planning bodies that serve like populations.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2556 - Administrative Costs.

§  2556.  Administrative  costs.    On  or  after July first, nineteen
  hundred ninety-four, and annually thereafter,  municipalities  shall  be
  eligible  for  reimbursement  for  administrative costs exclusive of due
  process costs incurred during the preceding year pursuant to this title.
  Such reimbursement shall be made in the first instance from any  federal
  funds  available for such purpose, as determined by the commissioner. To
  the extent that such federal funds are not sufficient  or  available  to
  reimburse  a  municipality  for such administrative costs, reimbursement
  shall be made with state funds in an amount up to,  but  not  exceeding,
  one  hundred  dollars  for  each eligible child served in such preceding
  year.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2559-A - Transportation.

§ 2559-a. Transportation.  The municipality in which an eligible child
  resides  shall,  beginning with the first day of service, provide either
  directly, by contract,  or  through  reimbursement  at  a  mileage  rate
  authorized  by  the municipality for the use of a private vehicle or for
  other  reasonable  transportation  costs,  for  suitable  transportation
  pursuant  to  section  twenty-five hundred forty-five of this title. All
  contracts for transportation of such children shall be provided pursuant
  to the procedures set forth in section two  hundred  thirty-six  of  the
  family  court  act,  using  the  date  on  which  the  child's  IFSP  is
  implemented, in lieu of the date the court order was  issued;  provided,
  however,  that the city of New York shall provide such transportation in
  accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred thirty of the laws
  of nineteen hundred ninety-two, if applicable.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 2-A - Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers With Disabilities and Their Families › 2559-B - Regulations.

§  2559-b.  Regulations.    The  commissioner  may  adopt  regulations
  necessary to carry out the provisions of  this  title.  In  promulgating
  such   regulations,   the  commissioner  shall  incorporate  coordinated
  standards and procedures,  where  applicable,  and  shall  consider  the
  regulations, guidelines and operating procedures of other state agencies
  that  administer or supervise the administration of services to infants,
  toddlers  and  preschool  children  to  ensure  that  families,  service
  providers  and  municipalities  are  not  unnecessarily required to meet
  differing eligibility, reporting or procedural requirements.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 3-A - Community Doula Expansion Program › 2561 - Definitions.

* § 2561. Definitions. As used in this title:
1.  "Eligible  providers"  shall  mean  community-based  organizations
  providing for  the  recruitment,  training,  certification,  supporting,
  and/or mentoring of community-based doulas.
2.  "Community-based doula" shall mean a certified doula that provides
  culturally sensitive pregnancy and childbirth education,  early  linkage
  to  health  care, and aids birthing persons in navigating other services
  and supports that they may need to be healthy.
* NB Repealed March 31, 2025
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 3-A - Community Doula Expansion Program › 2562 - Rules.

* § 2562. Rules. 1. The commissioner shall establish a community doula
  expansion grant program for eligible providers to receive funding in the
  performance  of recruitment, training, certification, supporting, and/or
  mentoring of community-based doulas. Such eligible providers shall  meet
  professionally  recognized  training  standards,  comply with applicable
  state law and regulations, and shall be capable of providing  culturally
  congruent care.
2.  The  commissioner  is  authorized, within amounts appropriated for
  such purpose, to make grants in accordance with this  subdivision.  Such
  grants  may  be  used for but not limited to the administration, faculty
  recruitment and development, start-up costs and other costs incurred for
  providing  recruitment,  training,  certification,  supporting,   and/or
  mentoring of community-based doulas.
3.  There  shall  be  an  emphasis of appropriating grants to eligible
  providers that specifically  train,  recruit,  and  employ  doulas  from
  historically  vulnerable  communities,  and  bilingual  doulas. This may
  include grants for doula apprentice programs.
4. Information about the community doula expansion grant program shall
  be posted on the department's website.
* NB Repealed March 31, 2025
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 25 - Maternal and Child Health › Title 3-A - Community Doula Expansion Program › 2563 - Report.

* §  2563.  Report.  Upon  expiration of the program, the commissioner
  shall post a final report on  the  department's  website  outlining  the
  total  number of grants awarded, the names of eligible providers awarded
  funds pursuant to the program, and the amount  of  funding  received  by
  each.
* NB Repealed March 31, 2025