Senate Bill S135

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides practical support for access to abortion care

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  • 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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2025-S135 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2599-bb-1, Pub Health L

2025-S135 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides practical support for access to abortion care including, but not limited to, reimbursement for ground and air transportation, lodging, meals, childcare, translation services, and doula support.

2025-S135 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    135
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 providing  practi-
   cal support for access to abortion care

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2599-bb-1 of  the  public  health
 law, as added by section 1 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024,
 is amended to read as follows:
   1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the follow-
 ing meanings:
   (a)  "Abortion"  shall  mean  the termination of pregnancy pursuant to
 section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of this article.
   (b) "Health care services" shall mean the range of care related to the
 provision of abortion.
   (c) "PRACTICAL SUPPORT" SHALL MEAN FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO AN INDIVID-
 UAL TO ENABLE ACCESS TO ABORTION CARE.
   (D) "Program" shall mean the reproductive  freedom  and  equity  grant
 program established pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
   §    2. Subdivision 3 of section 2599-bb-1 of the public health law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) ADDRESS PRACTICAL SUPPORT NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS ACCESSING  ABORTION
 CARE  FOR  INDIVIDUALS  WHO LACK ABILITY TO PAY FOR SUCH SUPPORT.  FUNDS
 MAY BE AWARDED TO SUPPORT PRACTICAL SUPPORT  NEEDS  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO,  REIMBURSEMENT  FOR GROUND AND AIR TRANSPORTATION, LODGING,
 MEALS, CHILDCARE, TRANSLATION SERVICES, AND DOULA SUPPORT.
   § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph,  section
 or  part  of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent juris-
 diction to be invalid and  after  exhaustion  of  all  further  judicial
 review, the judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remain-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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