Expands Medicaid coverage to include abortion services and travel-related expenses uncovered 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; provides such travel-related expenses include those for such members, or their spouses or dependents, located within another state or a foreign country where they could not legally receive such services due to such active duty status.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7883
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 19, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to expanding Medi-
caid coverage to include abortion services and travel-related expenses
uncovered by the military for certain New York state residents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (mm) to read as follows:
3 (mm) abortion services, including surgical and pharmaceutical
4 abortions, and any necessary travel-related expenses incurred to receive
5 such services due to the recipient of such services being located within
6 another state or a foreign country where such services could not legally
7 be obtained, which are not covered by any other insurance or the armed
8 forces of the United States, when:
9 (i) such services are provided by a health care practitioner licensed,
10 certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting
11 within his or her lawful scope of practice; and
12 (ii) such services are provided to a resident of the state who is an
13 active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or who is a
14 spouse or dependent of such member.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
19 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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