Assembly Bill A10651

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides additional protections at reproductive health clinics

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A10651 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.70, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A1295

2021-A10651 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides additional protections at reproductive health clinics; prohibits interference with phone lines, the release of offensive odors, and noises intended to jeopardize the health of persons receiving reproductive health services or to interfere with the safe and effective delivery of such services.

2021-A10651 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10651
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
   thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  providing  additional
   protections at reproductive health clinics
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of  section  240.70  of  the
 penal  law,  as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1999, is amended and
 three new paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) are added to read as follows:
   (d) [he or she] SUCH PERSON intentionally damages the  property  of  a
 health  care  facility,  or  attempts  to  do  so, because such facility
 provides reproductive health  services,  or  intentionally  damages  the
 property of a place of religious worship[.]; OR
   (E) SUCH PERSON MAKES OR CAUSES TO BE MADE REPEATED TELEPHONE CALLS TO
 A  HEALTH  CARE  FACILITY,  WHETHER OR NOT CONVERSATION ENSUES, WITH THE
 INTENT TO IMPEDE ACCESS TO A HEALTH CARE FACILITY'S TELEPHONE  LINES  OR
 OTHERWISE DISRUPT A HEALTH CARE FACILITY'S ACTIVITIES; OR
   (F)  SUCH  PERSON  ACTIVATES  A  DEVICE  OR  EXPOSES  A SUBSTANCE THAT
 RELEASES NOXIOUS AND OFFENSIVE ODORS WITHIN A HEALTH  CARE  FACILITY  OR
 WITHIN ONE HUNDRED FEET OF THE ENTRANCE TO SUCH HEALTH CARE FACILITY; OR
   (G)  SUCH  PERSON INTENTIONALLY MAKES NOISE THAT CAN BE HEARD WITHIN A
 HEALTH CARE FACILITY, AFTER SUCH PERSON HAS BEEN ORDERED BY LAW ENFORCE-
 MENT TO CEASE MAKING SUCH NOISE, WITH THE INTENT TO EITHER:
   (I) JEOPARDIZE THE HEALTH OF  PERSONS  RECEIVING  REPRODUCTIVE  HEALTH
 SERVICES WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE FACILITY; OR
   (II)  INTERFERE  WITH  THE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE DELIVERY OF REPRODUCTIVE
 HEALTH SERVICES WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE FACILITY.
   § 2. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part
 of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction  to
 be  invalid  and  after  exhaustion  of all further judicial review, the
 judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the  remainder  thereof,
 but  shall  be  confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, para-
 graph, section or part of this act directly involved in the  controversy
 in which the judgment shall have been rendered.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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