Bill Text: NY A02137 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides practical support for access to abortion care including, but not limited to, reimbursement for ground and air transportation, lodging, meals, childcare, translation services, and doula support.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - referred to health [A02137 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02137-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2137

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 15, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, PAULIN, ANDERSON, BICHOTTE HERME-
          LYN,  BORES,  BRONSON,  BURDICK,  R. CARROLL, CLARK, CRUZ, CUNNINGHAM,
          DAVILA, DE LOS SANTOS, DINOWITZ, EPSTEIN, FORREST,  GALLAGHER,  GIBBS,
          GLICK,  HEVESI,  JACOBSON, KELLES, KIM, LAVINE, LEE, LEVENBERG, LUCAS,
          LUNSFORD, MAMDANI, MITAYNES,  OTIS,  RAGA,  RAJKUMAR,  REYES,  RIVERA,
          ROSENTHAL,  ROZIC,  SAYEGH,  SEAWRIGHT,  SEPTIMO,  SHIMSKY,  SHRESTHA,
          SIMON, SIMONE, TAPIA, TAYLOR, WALKER, WEPRIN, ZINERMAN  --  read  once
          and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing practi-
          cal support for access to abortion care

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

     1    Section  1.    Subdivision 1 of section 2599-bb-1 of the public health
     2  law, as added by section 1 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the follow-
     5  ing meanings:
     6    (a) "Abortion" shall mean the termination  of  pregnancy  pursuant  to
     7  section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of this article.
     8    (b) "Health care services" shall mean the range of care related to the
     9  provision of abortion.
    10    (c) "Practical support" shall mean financial assistance to an individ-
    11  ual to enable access to abortion care.
    12    (d)  "Program"  shall  mean  the reproductive freedom and equity grant
    13  program established pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
    14    §  2. Subdivision 3 of section 2599-bb-1 of the public health  law  is
    15  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
    16    (c)  Address practical support needs of individuals accessing abortion
    17  care for individuals who lack ability to pay for such  support.    Funds
    18  may  be  awarded  to  support practical support needs including, but not

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  limited to, reimbursement for ground and  air  transportation,  lodging,
     2  meals, childcare, translation services, and doula support.
     3    §  3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section
     4  or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of  competent  juris-
     5  diction  to  be  invalid  and  after  exhaustion of all further judicial
     6  review, the judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remain-
     7  der thereof, but shall be confined  in  its  operation  to  the  clause,
     8  sentence,  paragraph,  section  or part of this act directly involved in
     9  the controversy in which the judgment shall have been rendered.
    10    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.