Requires all insurance policies and health maintenance organization contracts to provide coverage for maternity patients and their newborns for hospital stays of at least 48 hours following childbirth by natural delivery and 96 hours following childbirth by caesarean section; provides such coverage for patients who are recipients of medicaid.
Asm. Alicia Hyndman
Sponsored bills
Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.
Allows schools to provide water safety instruction to students in grades kindergarten through twelve; allows for the commissioner of education to provide technical assistance to develop curricula for water safety instruction.
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older.
Relates to the number and duties of assistant principals to be assigned to the schools in the city school district of the city of New York.
Prohibits telephone corporations from charging a caller any increased rates, charges, or fees for long-distance or other calls without first notifying such caller.
Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or more.
Authorizes the transfer of pregnant and postpartum incarcerated individuals to residential treatment facilities; requires annual reporting on the number of such incarcerated individuals transferred.
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act"; establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities; requires submission of staffing plans; prohibits most mandatory overtime.