S04432 Summary:

BILL NOS04432
 
SAME ASSAME AS A06221
 
SPONSORSTEWART-COUSINS
 
COSPNSRAVELLA, BRESLIN, COMRIE, DILAN, ESPAILLAT, GIANARIS, HAMILTON, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, LATIMER, MONTGOMERY, PARKER, PERALTA, PERKINS, RIVERA, SANDERS, SERRANO, SQUADRON, STAVISKY
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add Art 41 Title 6-A S4166, Pub Health L
 
Relates to access to reproductive services.
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S04432 Actions:

BILL NOS04432
 
03/20/2015REFERRED TO HEALTH
01/06/2016REFERRED TO HEALTH
03/02/2016NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
05/04/2016DEFEATED IN HEALTH
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S04432 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4432
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     March 20, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. STEWART-COUSINS, BRESLIN, COMRIE, DILAN, GIANARIS,
          HAMILTON,  HASSELL-THOMPSON,  KRUEGER,  LATIMER,  MONTGOMERY,  PARKER,
          PERALTA, PERKINS, RIVERA, SANDERS, SERRANO, SQUADRON, STAVISKY -- read
          twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
          Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public  health  law,  in  relation  to  reproductive
          services
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Article 41 of the public health law is amended by adding  a
     2  new title 6-A to read as follows:
     3                                 TITLE VI-A
     4                            REPRODUCTIVE SERVICES
     5  Section 4166. Access to reproductive services.
     6    §  4166.  Access  to reproductive services. The state shall not deny a
     7  woman's right to obtain an abortion as established by the United  States
     8  Supreme  Court in the decision Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S.113 (1973). Notwith-
     9  standing any law to the contrary, New York protects a woman's  right  to
    10  terminate  a pregnancy within twenty-four weeks from commencement of her
    11  pregnancy, or when necessary to protect a  woman's  life  or  health  as
    12  determined by a licensed physician.
    13    Nothing in this section shall be construed to conflict with any appli-
    14  cable  state  or  federal  law  or  regulation  permitting a health care
    15  provider to refrain from providing abortions due to the provider's reli-
    16  gious or moral beliefs.
    17    Nothing in this section shall conflict with the partial birth abortion
    18  ban codified under 18 USC section 1531.
    19    No prosecution or proceeding shall be brought or maintained under  the
    20  penal  law or otherwise for acts that are authorized or permitted pursu-
    21  ant to this section or by  this chapter and the education law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09920-01-5

        S. 4432                             2
 
     1    Subdivisions two and three  of  section  125.05,  subdivision  two  of
     2  section 125.15, subdivision three of section 125.20 and sections 125.40,
     3  125.45,  125.50,  125.55 and 125.60 of the penal law are hereby repealed
     4  to the extent that they are inconsistent with this section.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.
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