Bill Text: NY A01386 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires student onboarding and ongoing education on reproductive health services available to students including where the closest reproductive health clinics are located; all resources available to a student seeking reproductive health services including but not limited to financial assistance and mental health services and any reproductive health resources available to a student through the institution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A01386 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01386-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1386

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  providing  student
          onboarding and ongoing education on reproductive health services

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article  129-C
     2  to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 129-C
     4  STUDENT ONBOARDING AND ONGOING EDUCATION ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES
     5  Section 6450. Student  onboarding  and ongoing education on reproductive
     6                  health services.
     7    § 6450. Student  onboarding  and  ongoing  education  on  reproductive
     8  health  services.  1.  As used in this article, the following terms have
     9  the following meanings:
    10    a. "Reproductive health services" shall include:
    11    (i) abortion pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of
    12  the public health law;
    13    (ii)   emergency contraception  as  defined  in  section  twenty-eight
    14  hundred five-p of the public health law; and
    15    (iii)   medical, surgical, counseling or referral services relating to
    16  the human reproductive system, including services relating to  pregnancy
    17  or the termination of a pregnancy.
    18    b.  "Code  of  conduct"  shall mean the written policies adopted by an
    19  institution governing student  behavior,  rights,  and  responsibilities
    20  while such student is matriculated in the institution.
    21    c. "Institution" shall mean any college or university chartered by the
    22  regents or incorporated by special act of the legislature that maintains
    23  a campus in New York.
    24    2.  Every  institution  shall adopt a comprehensive student onboarding
    25  and ongoing education campaign to educate members of  the  institution's

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05063-01-3
        A. 1386                             2

     1  community  on  the  right  to  and  availability  of reproductive health
     2  services in the state.
     3    3.  Included  in  this  campaign  shall  be a requirement that all new
     4  first-year and transfer students  shall,  during  the  course  of  their
     5  onboarding  to  their  respective  institution,  receive information and
     6  resources on the following, using a method and manner appropriate to the
     7  institutional culture of each institution:
     8    a. Where the nearest reproductive health services are located;
     9    b. What resources are available  to  a  student  seeking  reproductive
    10  health  services  including  but not limited to financial assistance and
    11  mental health services; and
    12    c. Reproductive health resources available to a  student  through  the
    13  institution, if applicable.
    14    4.  Every institution shall provide such reproductive health resources
    15  to all new students,  whether  first-year  or  transfer,  undergraduate,
    16  graduate, or professional.
    17    5.  Every institution shall require that each student leader and offi-
    18  cer of student organizations recognized by or registered with the insti-
    19  tution, as  well  as  those  seeking  recognition  by  the  institution,
    20  complete  training on reproductive health services available to students
    21  at the institution.
    22    6. Every institution shall adopt written rules and regulations  imple-
    23  menting this article by amending its code of conduct or other comparable
    24  policies which shall be distributed annually to students, made available
    25  on  each  institution's  website,  posted  in campus residence halls and
    26  campus centers where applicable, and shall  include  links  to  relevant
    27  reproductive  health  service resources provided pursuant to subdivision
    28  two of this section.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    30  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    31  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    32  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    33  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.