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Committee advances bill to require perinatal mental-health screening and reporting to the General Assembly
Summary
House Bill 649 would require mental-health screening for pregnant and postpartum people and set reporting requirements; the committee approved the substitute bill after stakeholder comments that screenings are generally covered by insurers and that patients may decline services.
A substitute for House Bill 649, which would require mental-health screening for pregnant and postpartum people and create reporting requirements, passed the committee on a voice vote.
Representative Bennett, the bill’s author, told the committee that the legislation responds to Georgia’s high maternal mortality and to a Department of Public Health report concluding that mental-health conditions are among the leading preventable causes of death in perinatal women. Bennett said the bill…
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