New York Assembly Bill A07883 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7883 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY July 19, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health 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 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (mm) to read as follows: 3 (mm) abortion services, including surgical and pharmaceutical 4 abortions, and any necessary travel-related expenses incurred to receive 5 such services due to the recipient of such services being located within 6 another state or a foreign country where such services could not legally 7 be obtained, which are not covered by any other insurance or the armed 8 forces of the United States, when: 9 (i) such services are provided by a health care practitioner licensed, 10 certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting 11 within his or her lawful scope of practice; and 12 (ii) such services are provided to a resident of the state who is an 13 active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or who is a 14 spouse or dependent of such member. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 19 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11882-02-3