Bill Text: NY A03070 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Suspends all unnecessary travel to states that have discriminatory laws for access to women's reproductive health services, including but not limited to, limitations on access to abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - referred to governmental operations [A03070 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03070-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3070

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. BURDICK, LEVENBERG, DINOWITZ, SHIMSKY, EPSTEIN,
          SEAWRIGHT, TAPIA, SIMONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to suspending all  unnec-
          essary  travel  to  states that have discriminatory laws for access to
          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 executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-i
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 170-i. State-funded and state-sponsored travel.  1.  Notwithstanding
     4  any  law, rule or regulation to the contrary, all agencies, departments,
     5  boards, divisions, authorities and commissions shall review all requests
     6  for state-funded or state-sponsored travel to a state that, after  Janu-
     7  ary  first, two thousand twenty-six, have discriminatory laws for access
     8  to reproductive health services, including but not limited  to,  limita-
     9  tions on access to abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
    10    2.  Any  such  publicly  funded or publicly sponsored travel to such a
    11  location, unless such travel is necessary for  the  enforcement  of  New
    12  York  state  law,  to  meet  prior  contractual  obligations, or for the
    13  protection of public health, welfare, and safety, or is otherwise in the
    14  interest of the state, is suspended.
    15    3. The attorney general shall develop, maintain,  and  post  on  their
    16  website a current list of states that, after January first, two thousand
    17  twenty-six,  have  discriminatory laws for access to reproductive health
    18  services, including  but  not  limited  to,  limitations  on  access  to
    19  abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
    20    § 2. 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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