NY State Senate Bill 2023-S6368

Senate Bill S6368

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires hospitals which offer medical residency training to provide certain obstetric-gynecology training

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 03, 2024	referred to health
Apr 18, 2023	referred to health

2023-S6368 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1917
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §2801-i, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: A2715
2011-2012: A2944
2013-2014: A3903
2015-2016: A3693
2017-2018: S7366, A3957
2019-2020: S4813, A1152
2021-2022: S5207, A8321

2023-S6368 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that hospitals which offer medical residency training in obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, women's health and osteopathy shall provide training which follows the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association special requirements for obstetrics-gynecology; provides for experience with induced abortions and complications thereto except where residency program has a religious, moral or legal restriction which prohibits residents from performing abortions within the institution.

2023-S6368 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6368

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to medical residency
training

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To require hospitals, which receive reimbursement for medical residency
training, to provide for training in all methods of family planning
including induced abortions except for residents with moral or religious
objections.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1: The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2801-i.

Section 2: This act shall take effect on the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation was prompted by the near disappearance of routine
abortion training from ob/gyn residency programs and the resultant
provider shortage that often impedes and sometimes prevents women from
exercising their basic right to terminate a pregnancy.

This legislation mirrors the unanimously adopted policy of the Accredi-
tation Council on Graduate Medical Education. This bill would provide a
fiscal penalty, lack of reimbursement, for a failure to provide the
required training.

Even though abortion services are more available in New York than in
other states, only 19% of our ob/gyn programs routinely train their
residents in the abortion procedure. Furthermore, we continue to witness
the results of the continuing shortage in our state: 25 counties have no
abortion provider, New York experienced the second highest numerical
loss of providers in the country from 1988-1992, and Planned Parenthood
of New York City reports having had to reschedule appointments when a
substitute provider cannot be found.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2021-22: S5207 -Referred to Health

2019-20: S.4813-Referred to Health

2017-18: S.7366 -REFERRED TO HEALTH

2015-16: A3693 referred to health

2013-14: A.3903 Referred to Health

2011-2012: A.2944 Referred to Health

2009-10: A.2715 Referred to Health
2007-08: A.2266 referred to Health

2005-06: A.5441 - Referred to Health

2003-04: A.947 - Referred to Health

2002: A.2411 - Reported from Health to Rules

2000: S.2290 - Referred to Health/ A.4054 Referred to Health

1998: A.7081-A referred to Health

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.

2023-S6368 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6368
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 18, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to medical  residency
   training
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 2801-i to read as follows:
   §  2801-I.  MEDICAL  RESIDENT TRAINING; CERTAIN REQUIRED TRAINING.  1.
 ANY HOSPITAL WHICH RECEIVES ANY REIMBURSEMENT PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS
 OF THIS ARTICLE AND WHICH OFFERS ALLOPATHIC OR OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL RESI-
 DENT TRAINING IN OBSTETRICS, GYNECOLOGY, INTERNAL  MEDICINE  OR  WOMEN'S
 HEALTH  SHALL PROVIDE TRAINING THAT FOLLOWS THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL ON
 GRADUATE MEDICAL  EDUCATION  OR  THE  AMERICAN  OSTEOPATHIC  ASSOCIATION
 SPECIAL   REQUIREMENTS  FOR  OBSTETRICS-GYNECOLOGY.  THE  PROGRAM  SHALL
 PROVIDE A STRUCTURED DIDACTIC AND CLINICAL TRAINING  EXPERIENCE  IN  ALL
 METHODS OF FAMILY PLANNING.  TOPICS SHALL INCLUDE ALL REVERSIBLE METHODS
 OF  CONTRACEPTION,  INCLUDING NATURAL METHODS, AS WELL AS STERILIZATION.
 THE PROGRAM SHALL INCLUDE EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT OF  COMPLICATIONS  AS
 WELL  AS TRAINING IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE PROCEDURES. SUCH EDUCATION
 CAN BE PROVIDED OUTSIDE THE INSTITUTION,  IN  AN  APPROPRIATE  FACILITY,
 UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF APPROPRIATELY TRAINED FACULTY.
   2.  EXPERIENCE WITH INDUCED ABORTION SHALL BE PART OF RESIDENCY TRAIN-
 ING, EXCEPT FOR RESIDENTS  WITH  MORAL  OR  RELIGIOUS  OBJECTIONS.  SUCH
 EDUCATION  CAN  BE  PROVIDED  OUTSIDE  THE  INSTITUTION. EXPERIENCE WITH
 MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS OF ABORTION SHALL BE PROVIDED TO  ALL  RESI-
 DENTS.   IF  A  RESIDENCY  PROGRAM  HAS  A  RELIGIOUS,  MORAL  OR  LEGAL
 RESTRICTION WHICH PROHIBITS  THE  RESIDENTS  FROM  PERFORMING  ABORTIONS
 WITHIN  THE  INSTITUTION,  THE  PROGRAM  SHALL INSURE THAT THE RESIDENTS
 RECEIVE A SATISFACTORY EDUCATION AND  EXPERIENCE  MANAGING  THE  COMPLI-
 CATIONS  OF  ABORTION.  FURTHERMORE,  SUCH RESIDENCY PROGRAMS SHALL HAVE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03188-01-3

 S. 6368                             2
 
 MECHANISMS WHICH INSURE THAT RESIDENTS IN THEIR PROGRAM WHO DO NOT  HAVE
 A  RELIGIOUS  OR  MORAL  OBJECTION  RECEIVE  EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE IN
 PERFORMING ABORTION AT ANOTHER INSTITUTION.
   3.  ANY  HOSPITAL WHICH FAILS TO FOLLOW THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION
 SHALL BE INELIGIBLE FOR REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE.
   § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

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