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Assembly Bill A10679

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires free access to medication abortion services to all students on college and university campuses

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2021-A10679 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §319, Ed L

2021-A10679 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that all student health centers on college and university campuses in the state offer medication abortion services and any additional techniques or processes that are associated with medication abortion onsite to students attending such colleges and universities free of charge.

2021-A10679 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10679
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gonzalez-Ro-
   jas) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring free access
   to medication abortion services to all students on college and univer-
   sity campuses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 319 to
 read as follows:
   §  319.  FREE  ACCESS  TO  MEDICATION ABORTION SERVICES ON COLLEGE AND
 UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES. 1. FOR PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  "STUDENT  HEALTH  CENTER"  SHALL  MEAN A CLINIC PROVIDING PRIMARY
 HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO STUDENTS.
   (B) "MEDICATION ABORTION" SHALL MEAN THE PROCESS OF  USING  MEDICATION
 TO TERMINATE A PREGNANCY.
   2.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL,  IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF
 HEALTH, ENSURE THAT ALL STUDENT HEALTH CENTERS ON COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY
 CAMPUSES IN THE STATE OFFER MEDICATION ABORTION SERVICES AND  ANY  ADDI-
 TIONAL  TECHNIQUES  OR  PROCESSES  THAT  ARE  ASSOCIATED WITH MEDICATION
 ABORTION ONSITE TO STUDENTS ATTENDING  SUCH  COLLEGES  AND  UNIVERSITIES
 FREE OF CHARGE.
   3.  SUCH  MEDICATION ABORTION SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE PURSUANT TO THIS
 SECTION SHALL BE PROVIDED BY MEDICAL  PROFESSIONALS  ON  STAFF  AT  SUCH
 STUDENT  HEALTH  CENTERS  OR  BY A THIRD PARTY WHO HAS CONTRACTED WITH A
 COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE SUCH MEDICAL SERVICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16114-01-2

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