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Int 0029-2024
| * | Amanda Farías | | | Requiring a training program for first responders and an awareness campaign regarding domestic violence-related traumatic brain injuries | Introduction | This bill would require the City to provide training to first responders and service providers about the connection between domestic violence and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Such training would include information relating to the prevalence of TBI among domestic violence survivors, how to identify symptoms of TBI, how to respond to the needs of individuals with TBI, and the long-term health impacts of repeated brain injuries. This bill would also require the department of health and mental hygiene to collaborate with the mayor’s office to end domestic and gender-based violence to conduct an awareness campaign on the connection between domestic violence and traumatic brain injury. | | |
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Int 0628-2024
| * | Public Advocate Jumaane Williams | | | Signage regarding transgender rights and services at hospitals. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to distribute signs on an individual’s right to be referred to by a preferred name, title, gender and pronoun to every hospital in the city. This bill would also require DOHMH to establish guidance to encourage hospitals to list and conspicuously post the transgender-specific services offered by each hospital, and would require DOHMH to post such guidance on its website. DOHMH would also be required to coordinate with hospitals to update such list of transgender-specific services, and post the list of services and any updates on the department’s website. | | |
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Int 0629-2024
| * | Public Advocate Jumaane Williams | | | Requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to report on training for medical care for transgender and gender non-conforming persons. | Introduction | This bill would require the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to report on training provided by hospitals to medical staff on medical care for transgender and gender non-conforming persons, including training on medical needs common to transgender and gender non-conforming-specific patients, medical and surgical treatment, and treatment and care related to social and medical transitions. | | |
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Int 0895-2024
| * | Julie Menin | | | Requiring schools and child care programs to stock epinephrine auto-injector devices. | Introduction | This bill would require schools and child care programs to stock epinephrine auto-injector devices. | | |
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Int 1001-2024
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | | Creating an automated text messaging system to provide participants with important reminders regarding children’s health and development. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish an automated text messaging system to provide participants with text message reminders for important child life deadlines including health checkups and child care and school registration deadlines. The Department would also be required to conduct an outreach campaign to inform the public about the existence of such a program and comply with all laws and regulations related to private identifying information. | | |
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Int 1056-2024
| * | Crystal Hudson | | | Training for medical personnel in public schools and reporting on participation in such training. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, in collaboration with the Department of Education and community based organizations, to conduct an annual LGBTQIA+ competency training for public school medical personnel. This training would be required for DOHMH employees and contractors and be offered to Department of Education employees and contractors and would focus on health concerns for the community including gender and sexuality affirming care and a list of referrals and resources to help medical personnel connect students with such care. This bill would also require reporting on attendance of such training. | | |
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Int 1146-2024
| * | Selvena N. Brooks-Powers | | | Expanding the availability of the newborn home visiting program. | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to establish a Newborn Home Visiting Program and ensure that such program is available to 75 percent of all Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Equity identified neighborhoods within 3 years of the effective date of the bill and to be available in 100% of such neighborhoods within 5 years. The bill would also require the Department to submit two progress reports to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council detailing the availability of the program in priority neighborhoods. | | |
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T2025-3526
| * | Jennifer Gutiérrez | | | Education campaign for healthcare providers and the public on opioid use disorder and the use of opioid agonist therapies during and after pregnancy, and the distribution of opioid antagonists at neighborhood health service centers. | Introduction | This bill would require the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to create an education campaign for healthcare providers about opioid use disorder (OUD) and how to safely treat it during and after pregnancy. The campaign must be developed with medical professional organizations, and focus on the benefits of using approved medications (like methadone or buprenorphine) to treat OUD during pregnancy, known as opioid agonist therapy; the dangers of withdrawal for both the pregnant person and the baby; and recommendations from trusted medical organizations and the New York State Department of Health. Additionally, the bill requires the city to offer opioid antagonists (medications like naloxone) for free at neighborhood health service centers. These centers must also provide information about how to use these medications safely and the risks of opioid use during and after pregnancy. | | |
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Res 0055-2024
| * | Diana I. Ayala | | Proposed Res. No. 55-A | Allow the presence of epinephrine auto-injector devices on pre-school premises (S.7166/A.645). | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0116-2024
| * | Crystal Hudson | | | Establish the medical debt relief fund and allow taxpayers to make a donation to such fund on their personal tax returns. | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0290-2024
| * | Lynn C. Schulman | | | Require warning labels on sugar sweetened beverages. | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0294-2024
| * | Althea V. Stevens | | Proposed Res. No. 294-A | Prohibit certain food additives, to prohibit the sale of food containing certain color additives at schools, and to prohibit the use of substances “Generally Recognized as Safe” in food (S.1239A/A.1556A). | Resolution | | | |
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Res 0442-2024
| * | Keith Powers | | | U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require chain restaurants to include added sugars information in the nutrition information available to consumers on request. | Resolution | | | |
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