New York Senate Bill S03609 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3609--A Cal. No. 339 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. WEBB, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first report, amended on first report, ordered to a second report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enhancing the scope of health equity impact assessments to require consideration of reproductive health services and maternal health care The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2802-b of the public health law, 2 as amended by chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, is amended by adding a 3 new paragraph (j) to read as follows: 4 (j) The extent to which the availability and provision of reproductive 5 health services and maternal health care in the applicant's service area 6 will be affected if the project is implemented. Applicants shall demon- 7 strate how the project will meet the obligation of providing such 8 services, pursuant to section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-aa of this 9 chapter. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 11 manner as chapter 137 of the laws of 2022, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07126-03-3