---
type: "Bill"
title: "Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas; repealer"
description: "Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas for the purposes of Medicaid reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 8080"
citation: "New York S 8080 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Samra Brouk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-05"
last_action: "2024-01-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/321f1b8b-d7e7-4c70-b7c7-8dfc896c74d0"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8080"
source_hash: "847e0f0ff5860008fa2d498d7975f5e5777e98a9e41c95329666f142fd1a74dc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 8080 (2023-2024) — Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas; repealer

Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas for the purposes of Medicaid reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S8080** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8080&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **58–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **148–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Samra Brouk — primary (person)
- Jake Ashby — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.62
- **2024-01-17** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-01-17** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-01-17** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8529
- **2024-01-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.6
- **2024-01-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-01-23** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2024-01-26** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-26** SIGNED CHAP.18 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/321f1b8b-d7e7-4c70-b7c7-8dfc896c74d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).