New York Assembly Bill 4596

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-05-20 - print number 4596a
Pending: Assembly Codes Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Enacts the reproductive health care facilities and religious worship access act; provides that the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship shall be established by the mens rea of knowingly injuring, intimidating or interfering with a person obtaining or providing or assisting in obtaining or providing reproductive health services or a place of religious worship; includes in the definition of such crime engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts within twenty-five feet of the premises of a reproductive health care facility or a place of religious worship; defines such premises; provides for a civil cause of action for any person harmed by conduct constituting such a crime.

Enacts the reproductive health care facilities and religious worship access act; provides that the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship shall be established by the mens rea of knowingly injuring, intimidating or interfering with a person obtaining or providing or assisting in obtaining or providing reproductive health services or a place of religious worship; includes in the definition of such crime engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts within twenty-five feet of the premises of a reproductive health care facility or a place of religious worship; defines such premises; provides for a civil cause of action for any person harmed by conduct constituting such a crime.

Asm. Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn [D]	Asm. Amy Paulin [D]	Asm. Gary Pretlow [D]	Asm. Steven Otis [D]
Asm. Jonathan Jacobson [D]	Asm. Jennifer Lunsford [D]	Asm. Jo Simon [D]	Asm. Rebecca Seawright [D]
Asm. Deborah Glick [D]	Asm. Inez Dickens [D]	Asm. Christopher Burdick [D]	Asm. Maritza Davila [D]
Asm. Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Asm. Dana Levenberg [D]	Asm. Juan Ardila [D]	Asm. Jeffrion Aubry [D]
Asm. Gina Sillitti [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-05-20	Assembly	print number 4596a
2024-05-20	Assembly	amend and recommit to codes
2024-01-03	Assembly	referred to codes
2023-02-17	Assembly	referred to codes

S05761 (Same As) 2024-05-22 - PRINT NUMBER 5761A

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A4596
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A04596&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A04596
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A04596&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A04596A