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Health and Safety Code § 123616

ARTICLE 4.2. Maternal Mental Health

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 123616Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 773, Sec. 1. (AB 3032) Effective January 1, 2019.

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Maternal mental health condition” means a mental health condition that occurs during pregnancy or during the postpartum period and includes, but is not limited to, postpartum depression.

(b) “Perinatal unit” is a maternity and newborn service of a hospital for the provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and postpartum and neonatal periods with appropriate staff, space, equipment, and supplies.