Bill Text: NY A05627 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the department of health to conduct a public information and outreach campaign on medically unnecessary treatments on persons born with intersex traits or variations in sex characteristics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-31 - substituted by s5399 [A05627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05627-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5627

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
          department  of  health  to  conduct  a public information and outreach
          campaign on medically unnecessary  treatments  on  persons  born  with
          intersex traits or variations in sex characteristics

          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 207 of the public health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (r) to read as follows:
     3    (r)  The  physical,  sexual,  and  psychological impact of nonemergent
     4  medical procedures performed on individuals with variations in sex char-
     5  acteristics who have not themselves consented to the procedure; provided
     6  that such a program shall include an advisory council under this section
     7  that shall include intersex persons themselves,  intersex-led  organiza-
     8  tions,  and  health  care  providers with demonstrated medical expertise
     9  treating intersex individuals in a manner  that  respects  their  bodily
    10  integrity and self-determination, among others.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00423-01-3
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