STATE OF NEW YORK
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3609--B
Cal. No. 339
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 1, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. WEBB, BROUK, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first report,
amended on first report, ordered to a second report and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to second report,
ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the
Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enhancing the
scope of health equity impact assessments to require consideration of
reproductive health services and maternal health care
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2802-b of the public health law,
2 as amended by chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, is amended by adding a
3 new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
4 (j) The extent to which the availability and provision of reproductive
5 health services and maternal health care in the applicant's service area
6 will be affected if the project is implemented. Applicants shall demon-
7 strate how the project will impact the delivery of statutorily protected
8 reproductive health care, pursuant to section twenty-five hundred nine-
9 ty-nine-aa of this chapter, and maternity services.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
11 manner as chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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