Bill Text: NY A01475 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends legal protection to telehealth providers in the state of New York offering telehealth reproductive health services, regardless of the location of the patient.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01475 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01475-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1475

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, PAULIN, SIMON, EPSTEIN -- 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:

     1    Section 1. Section 2999-cc of the public  health  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.  "Telehealth reproductive health services" means any of the follow-
     4  ing services provided via telehealth or telemedicine:
     5    (a) abortion pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of
     6  this chapter;
     7    (b) emergency contraception as defined in section twenty-eight hundred
     8  five-p of this chapter; or
     9    (c) medical, surgical, counseling or referral services relating to the
    10  human reproductive system, including services relating to  pregnancy  or
    11  the termination of a pregnancy.
    12    §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2999-ff
    13  to read as follows:
    14    § 2999-ff. Telehealth reproductive health services. The  provision  of
    15  telehealth reproductive health services by a telehealth provider located
    16  at  a  distant  site  within  the  state  of  New  York shall be legally
    17  protected where such service is otherwise permitted under  the  laws  of
    18  the  state  of  New  York, regardless of the location of the originating
    19  site.
    20    § 3. 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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