Requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to create and distribute materials identifying mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to create and distribute materials identifying mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss

This bill would require the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to create materials that provide information about the effects of pregnancy loss on mental health and identify mental health resources available to individuals who have experienced pregnancy loss. The Commissioner would be required to distribute physical copies of these materials to all facilities operated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that provide reproductive healthcare and to post electronic copies on the department’s website. Additionally, the Commissioner must, to the extent practicable, inform family planning clinics within the city and hospital departments primarily providing reproductive healthcare about the availability of these materials and make physical copies available to them upon request.