Assembly Actions -
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Jan 03, 2024 |
referred to health |
Feb 03, 2023 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A3479
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
DESTEFANO
Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Eric Brown
John W. McGowan
multi-Sponsors
Marjorie Byrnes
Edward Flood
2023-A3479 (ACTIVE) - Details
2023-A3479 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3479 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing women alternative birth choices to preserve the life of a fetus when elect- ing to have an abortion THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2599-bb of the public health law is renumbered subdivision 7 and five new subdivisions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are added to read as follows: 2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE FOLLOW- ING DEFINITIONS: (A) "SEDATED BIRTH" SHALL MEAN A PROCEDURE TO TAKE PLACE PAST TWENTY- FOUR WEEKS OF PREGNANCY AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ABORTION WHERE A WOMAN RECEIVES GENERAL ANESTHESIA AND MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS TO INDUCE LABOR AND DELIVERY, WHILE MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN TO STOP THE HEARTBEAT OR OTHERWISE END THE LIFE OF THE FETUS. THE FETUS IS THEN BORN ALIVE AND INTACT. (B) "PERINATAL HOSPICE" SHALL MEAN SPECIALIZED PERINATAL CARE WHICH CAN TAKE PLACE AT ANY POINT DURING A PREGNANCY AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO SURGICAL ABORTION CENTERED ON ENSURING A PEACEFUL, NONVIOLENT AND NATURAL END TO A BABY'S LIFE THAT INCLUDES EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED TO THE PARENTS, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PARENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HEALTH- CARE DECISION MAKING PROCESS AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PARENTS TO CELE- BRATE THEIR BABY'S LIFE, WHETHER SUCH BABY'S LIFE LASTS FOR AN AMOUNT OF TIME AFTER BIRTH OR ENDS NATURALLY BEFORE BIRTH. 3. WHEN A HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER IS CARING FOR A PATIENT WHO IS CONSIDERING ABORTION AND SUCH ABORTION WOULD BE PERFORMED MORE THAN TWENTY-FOUR WEEKS FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF PREGNANCY BECAUSE SUCH ABORTION IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT SUCH PATIENT'S LIFE OR HEALTH, SUCH HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER SHALL INFORM SUCH PATIENT BEFORE ANY PROCEDURE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08169-01-3
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