The New York City Council - File #: Int 0914-2018

• File #: Int 0914-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Reporting on maternal mortality.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Laid Over in Committee
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on Women
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on maternal mortality
• Sponsors: Helen K. Rosenthal, Laurie A. Cumbo, Carlina Rivera , Margaret S. Chin, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Mark Levine, Diana Ayala , Stephen T. Levin, Brad S. Lander, Andrew Cohen

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/27/2018	*	Committee on Health	Laid Over by Committee
6/27/2018	*	Committee on Health	Hearing Held by Committee
6/27/2018	*	Committee on Women	Laid Over by Committee
6/27/2018	*	Committee on Women	Hearing Held by Committee
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 914

By Council Members Rosenthal, Cumbo, Rivera, Chin, Ampry-Samuel, Levine, Ayala, Levin, Lander and Cohen

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on maternal mortality
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Section 17-199.3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
? 17-199.3 Maternal mortality annual report. a. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Maternal health. The term "maternal health" means the health of [women] a person during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
Maternal mortality. The term "maternal mortality" means the death of a person while pregnant or within 42 days of the termination of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management.
b. No later than September 30, 2017, and not later than September 30 annually thereafter, the department shall submit to the speaker and publish in a machine-readable format in the annual summary of vital statistics the most recent calendar year data available regarding maternal mortality in New York City, to the extent such data is made available to the department, on an individual-person level, anonymized to comply with privacy considerations, including but not limited to the health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA), including, but not be limited to:
[1. The number of maternal mortalities, disaggregated by race or ethnicity and borough of residence;]
1. The total number of live births; and the total number of maternal mortalities disaggregated by information about the pregnant person or mother, including but not limited to: race or ethnicity; location where such person or mother resided by census block and tract; location(s) where such person or mother received pregnancy-related care by census block and tract; employm...