New York Assembly Bill A01475 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1475 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, PAULIN, SIMON, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to extending legal protection to telehealth providers in the state of New York offering telehealth reproductive health services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2999-cc of the public health law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. "Telehealth reproductive health services" means any of the follow- 4 ing services provided via telehealth or telemedicine: 5 (a) abortion pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of 6 this chapter; 7 (b) emergency contraception as defined in section twenty-eight hundred 8 five-p of this chapter; or 9 (c) medical, surgical, counseling or referral services relating to the 10 human reproductive system, including services relating to pregnancy or 11 the termination of a pregnancy. 12 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2999-ff 13 to read as follows: 14 § 2999-ff. Telehealth reproductive health services. The provision of 15 telehealth reproductive health services by a telehealth provider located 16 at a distant site within the state of New York shall be legally 17 protected where such service is otherwise permitted under the laws of 18 the state of New York, regardless of the location of the originating 19 site. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05851-01-3