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S00931 Summary:

BILL NO	S00931
SAME AS	SAME AS A00128
SPONSOR	PERSAUD
COSPNSR	FERNANDEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KRUEGER
MLTSPNSR
Add §267-a, Pub Health L
Prohibits the performance of virginity examinations.

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S00931 Actions:

BILL NO	S00931
01/09/2023	REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES
01/03/2024	REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

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S00931 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           931
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
 
        AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          virginity examinations
 
          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  a  new  section
     2  267-a to read as follows:
     3    §  267-a.  Prohibition  of  virginity  examinations.   No person shall
     4  perform a physical examination purporting to determine whether an  indi-
     5  vidual has previously had vaginal intercourse.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01726-01-3

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