BILL NUMBER: S7612

SPONSOR: KRUEGER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

If enacted, this legislation would ensure that New York State active-
duty military members either serving in this state or serving in a coun-
try or state which has restricted abortion services would have the
access to abortion services

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law is
amended by adding a new paragraph (mm) to read as follows:

(mm) abortion services, including surgical and pharmaceutical abortions,
              

and any necessary travel-related expenses incurred to receive such
services due to the recipient of such services being located within
another state or a foreign country where such services could not legally
be obtained, which are not covered by any other insurance or the armed
forces of the United States, when:

(i) such services are provided by a health care practitioner licensed,
certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting
within his or her lawful scope of practice; and

(ii) such services are provided to a resident of the state who is an
active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or who is a
spouse or dependent of such member.

§ 2. Effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The current house of representatives of the United States has utilized
their funding of our armed services to implement a radical social agenda
to prevent active-duty members of the military who are residents of the
State of New York from receiving abortion services when these services
are legal in their home state.

This ensures any active-duty individual in the armed services and their
dependents, whether deployed within the United States or abroad, may
receive these same abortion services they would normally be able receive
in the State of New York.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
completed on or before such effective date.