S6983 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act; requires hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health care providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; requires the department of health to publish reports on maternal morbidity and pregnancy related deaths.
- Title
- 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
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- Passed Assembly
- Latest action date
- 2026-06-05
- Introduced
- 2025-03-27
- Active version
- S6983A
- Same as
- A4018
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
- Jabari Brisport State Senator, District 25
Co-sponsors
- Julia Salazar State Senator, District 18
- Kristen Gonzalez State Senator, District 59
- Robert Jackson State Senator, District 31
Heard in committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
- Women's Issues NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A4018 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Substituted for
- A4018 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.