Bill Text: NY A09538 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of the department of health to undertake periodic inspections of abortion clinics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-06 - referred to health [A09538 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09538-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9538
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 6, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. MALLIOTAKIS, CORWIN -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  periodic  clinic
         inspection
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding two new sections
    2  2560 and 2561 to read as follows:
    3    S 2560.  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE:  1.  "ABORTION
    4  CLINIC"  SHALL  MEAN ANY FACILITY USED BY AN ENTITY TO PERFORM A MEDICAL
    5  ABORTION OR SURGICAL ABORTION.
    6    2. "MEDICAL ABORTION" SHALL MEAN AN ARTIFICIALLY  INDUCED  TERMINATION
    7  OF  A PREGNANCY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESTROYING AN EMBRYO OR FETUS THROUGH
    8  THE USE OF PHARMACEUTICALS.
    9    3. "SURGICAL ABORTION" SHALL MEAN AN ARTIFICIALLY INDUCED  TERMINATION
   10  OF  A PREGNANCY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DESTROYING AN EMBRYO OR FETUS THROUGH
   11  A PROCEDURE THAT INVOLVES BREAKING THE SKIN OR ENTERING THE BODY CAVITY.
   12    S 2561. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE  COMMISSIONER.  1.  THE  COMMISSIONER
   13  SHALL INSPECT EACH ABORTION CLINIC NOT LESS THAN BIENNIALLY. THE COMMIS-
   14  SIONER MAY APPOINT AND DESIGNATE, FROM TIME TO TIME, PERSONS TO MAKE THE
   15  INSPECTIONS AUTHORIZED BY THIS SECTION.
   16    2.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO CARRY
   17  OUT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, REGU-
   18  LATIONS ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR CLEANLINESS, HYGIENE, AND SAFETY.
   19    3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CREATE  A  BIENNIAL  REPORT  INDICATING  THE
   20  RESULTS OF ALL INDIVIDUAL INSPECTIONS AND DELIVER A COPY TO THE NEW YORK
   21  STATE ASSEMBLY, THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE, AND THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE
   22  OF NEW YORK.
   23    4. THE COMMISSIONER MAY, BY REGULATION, AUTHORIZE ANY COUNTY OR MUNIC-
   24  IPAL  DEPARTMENT  OF HEALTH TO ADMINISTER THIS SECTION WITHIN ITS JURIS-
   25  DICTION.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14834-02-4