Authorizes the commissioner of health to withhold reimbursements from medical assistance programs to retail entities who decline to make available, dispense, distribute, or sell a product approved by the federal government which would block, prevent, or otherwise negate a pregnancy in any jurisdiction within and subject to such federal government.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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352
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to withholding fund-
ing from certain entities who decline to make available, dispense,
distribute, or sell a product approved by the federal government which
would block, prevent, or otherwise negate a pregnancy
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2599-bb of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. The commissioner is authorized to withhold any and all funds due to
4 any retail entity reimbursed from a medical assistance program for
5 income eligible individuals that declines to make available, dispense,
6 distribute, or sell a product approved by the federal government which
7 would block, prevent, or otherwise negate a pregnancy in any jurisdic-
8 tion within and subject to such federal government. The commissioner may
9 elect to determine to withhold such funds due to the acts of a retail
10 entity doing business in another state or jurisdiction which has a
11 common ownership or brand with a retail entity doing business in this
12 state.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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