Bill Text: NY A00128 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - amended on third reading 128a [A00128 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           128

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, HEVESI, JACOBSON, WALLACE, SIMON, DeSTE-
          FANO,  BICHOTTE HERMELYN,  SEAWRIGHT,  SILLITTI,  DINOWITZ,  ZINERMAN,
          L. ROSENTHAL, DAVILA, BARRETT, CRUZ, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.
          of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to prohibiting
          virginity examinations

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  267-a to read as follows:
     3    § 267-a. Prohibition of  virginity  examinations.    No  person  shall
     4  perform  a physical examination purporting to determine whether an indi-
     5  vidual has previously had vaginal intercourse.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01726-01-3