S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
August 12, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to extending legal
protection to telehealth providers in the state of New York offering
telehealth reproductive health services
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 2999-cc of the public health law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
8. "TELEHEALTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES" MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOW-
ING SERVICES PROVIDED VIA TELEHEALTH OR TELEMEDICINE:
(A) ABORTION PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-BB OF
THIS CHAPTER;
(B) EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED
FIVE-P OF THIS CHAPTER; OR
(C) MEDICAL, SURGICAL, COUNSELING OR REFERRAL SERVICES RELATING TO THE
HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, INCLUDING SERVICES RELATING TO PREGNANCY OR
THE TERMINATION OF A PREGNANCY.
§ 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2999-ff
to read as follows:
§ 2999-FF. TELEHEALTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES. THE PROVISION OF
TELEHEALTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES BY A TELEHEALTH PROVIDER LOCATED
AT A DISTANT SITE WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL BE LEGALLY
PROTECTED WHERE SUCH SERVICE IS OTHERWISE PERMITTED UNDER THE LAWS OF
THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REGARDLESS OF THE LOCATION OF THE ORIGINATING
SITE.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16092-01-2
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