The New York City Council - File #: Int 0808-2022

• File #: Int 0808-2022
• Version: *
• Name: Holding quarterly meetings on maternal mortality efforts.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Filed (End of Session)
• Committee: Committee on Hospitals
• On agenda: 10/27/2022
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to holding quarterly meetings on maternal mortality efforts
• Sponsors: Lynn C. Schulman, Lincoln Restler, Gale A. Brewer, Rita C. Joseph, Shaun Abreu
• Council Member Sponsors: 5
• Summary: This bill would require the department of health and mental hygiene to convene quarterly meetings on efforts to combat maternal mortality taking place in the city focusing on issues hospitals are facing and how to best mitigate them. Stakeholders to be invited to the quarterly meetings include health and hospitals corporation, the chair of the committee on health and the chair of the committee on hospitals.

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
12/31/2023	*	Lynn C. Schulman	City Council	Filed (End of Session)
10/27/2022	*	Lynn C. Schulman	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
10/27/2022	*	Lynn C. Schulman	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 808

By Council Members Schulman, Restler, Brewer, Joseph and Abreu

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to holding quarterly meetings on maternal mortality efforts

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.3.2 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.3.2 Maternal mortality quarterly meetings. a. The department shall hold quarterly meetings on efforts taking place in the city to combat maternal mortality, as defined in subdivision a of section 17-199.3, with the aim to discuss ongoing issues hospitals are facing with maternal mortality and ways these issues can be mitigated.

b. The department shall invite all relevant stakeholders to the quarterly meetings including, but not limited to, the following:

1. A representative from New York city health and hospitals corporation;

2. The chair of the council committee on health or a successor committee with oversight over health-related issues; and

3. The chair of the council committee on hospitals or a successor committee with oversight over hospitals.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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