Senate Bill S9400

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires limited services pregnancy centers to disclose to clients that they do not have a licensed medical provider on staff

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Women's Issues Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S9400 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9773
Current Committee:
Senate Women's Issues
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2509-d, Pub Health L

2023-S9400 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires limited services pregnancy centers to disclose to clients that they do not have a licensed medical provider on staff who provides or supervises reproductive health services at such center; requires such disclosure to be provided in writing and orally, and to be available in English and Spanish; provides for reporting of violations; provides penalties for violations.

2023-S9400 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9400
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  limited
   services  pregnancy  centers  to  disclose to clients that they do not
   have a licensed medical provider on staff
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds that
 it is in the state's interest to ensure pregnant New Yorkers have timely
 access to the full range of reproductive health services that are avail-
 able  to  them,  including  prenatal  care, emergency contraception, and
 abortion. Article 25-A of the public health law, commonly referred to as
 the reproductive health act of 2019 guarantees this right, clearly stat-
 ing that "every individual who  becomes  pregnant  has  the  fundamental
 right  to  choose  to  carry  the  pregnancy to term, to give birth to a
 child, or to have an abortion, pursuant to this article".
   Moreover, the legislature finds that due to the  sensitive  timing  of
 receiving  emergency  contraception,  the importance of receiving prompt
 prenatal care in ensuring a healthy pregnancy, and statutory  timeframes
 that  limit the legality of abortion services, pregnant New Yorkers must
 receive timely and accurate information regarding their  pregnancy.  The
 health care options available to them must be presented free from unnec-
 essary  delay  or  religious or moral persuasion. Any delay in receiving
 reproductive health care services can lead to negative outcomes for  the
 pregnant  person  and  their  fetus,  or  a  complete loss in ability to
 receive emergency contraception or abortion services, effectively elimi-
 nating their reproductive autonomy.
   The legislature is aware that some limited service  pregnancy  centers
 that are ideologically opposed to comprehensive reproductive health care
 employ  deceptive  practices on customers that avail themselves of their
 services. These  practices  include  presenting  themselves  as  medical
 facilities  through  the  use  of  medical  history and health insurance
 intake, wearing of medical clothes and devices such  as  lab  coats  and
 stethoscopes, and siting of facilities near licensed health care facili-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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