Bill Text: NY S03609 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enhances the scope of health equity impact assessments to require consideration of reproductive health services and maternal health care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-08 - SIGNED CHAP.702 [S03609 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03609-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3609--B
            Cal. No. 339

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. WEBB, BROUK, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues --
          reported favorably from  said  committee,  ordered  to  first  report,
          amended  on  first  report,  ordered  to  a  second report and ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of  second  report  --
          reported  favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered to second report,
          ordered to a third reading, passed by  Senate  and  delivered  to  the
          Assembly,  recalled,  vote  reconsidered,  restored  to third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to enhancing the
          scope of health equity impact assessments to require consideration  of
          reproductive health services and maternal health care

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2802-b of the public  health  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, is amended by adding a
     3  new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     4    (j) The extent to which the availability and provision of reproductive
     5  health services and maternal health care in the applicant's service area
     6  will be affected if the project is implemented. Applicants shall  demon-
     7  strate how the project will impact the delivery of statutorily protected
     8  reproductive  health care, pursuant to section twenty-five hundred nine-
     9  ty-nine-aa of this chapter, and maternity services.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    11  manner as chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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