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.
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.
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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.
