Legislation
SECTION 4550
Admissibility of evidence related to legally protected health activity
Civil Practice Law & Rules (CVP) CHAPTER 8, ARTICLE 45
§ 4550. Admissibility of evidence related to legally protected health
activity. Evidence relating to the involvement of a party engaging in
legally protected health activity, as defined by section 570.17 of the
criminal procedure law shall not be offered against such party as
evidence that such party has engaged in any wrongdoing, whether civil,
criminal, professional, or otherwise by virtue of engaging in such
legally protected health activity. Nothing in this section shall prevent
a party from offering such evidence in a proceeding that (i) sounds in
tort or contract, (ii) is actionable, in an equivalent or similar
manner, under the laws of this state, and (iii) was brought by the
person who received reproductive health care or gender-affirming care,
or the person's legal representative in a manner consistent with
subparagraph (iii) of paragraph one of subdivision (g) of section three
thousand one hundred nineteen of this chapter.
activity. Evidence relating to the involvement of a party engaging in
legally protected health activity, as defined by section 570.17 of the
criminal procedure law shall not be offered against such party as
evidence that such party has engaged in any wrongdoing, whether civil,
criminal, professional, or otherwise by virtue of engaging in such
legally protected health activity. Nothing in this section shall prevent
a party from offering such evidence in a proceeding that (i) sounds in
tort or contract, (ii) is actionable, in an equivalent or similar
manner, under the laws of this state, and (iii) was brought by the
person who received reproductive health care or gender-affirming care,
or the person's legal representative in a manner consistent with
subparagraph (iii) of paragraph one of subdivision (g) of section three
thousand one hundred nineteen of this chapter.