STATE OF NEW YORK
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5517--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, GOTTFRIED, HEVESI, JACOBSON, WALLACE,
SIMON, FERNANDEZ, DeSTEFANO, NOLAN, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SEAWRIGHT,
SILLITTI, DINOWITZ, BARRON, GALEF, ZINERMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the
Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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.
LBD02831-04-1
