Provides funding for abortion services and travel-related expenses not covered by the military for active duty members of the armed forces of the United States, or their spouses or dependents, who are New York state residents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1571--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to funding for
abortion services and travel-related expenses for New York state resi-
dents that are active duty members of the armed forces of the United
States, or the spouse or dependent of such member
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2599-bb-1 of the public health law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) Funding abortion services, including surgical and pharmaceutical
4 abortions, and any necessary travel-related expenses incurred by a resi-
5 dent of the state who is an active duty member of the armed forces of
6 the United States, or who is a spouse or dependent of such member, when
7 such person is located within another state or a foreign country and
8 where such services could not legally be obtained, which are not covered
9 by any other insurance or the armed forces of the United States, and
10 when such services are provided by a health care practitioner licensed,
11 certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting
12 within the health care practitioner's lawful scope of practice.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
17 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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