Bill Text: NY A01295 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides additional protections at reproductive health clinics; prohibits interference with phone lines, the release of offensive odors, and noises intended to jeopardize the health of persons receiving reproductive health services or to interfere with the safe and effective delivery of such services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01295 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01295-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1295

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  providing  additional
          protections at reproductive health clinics

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of  section  240.70  of  the
     2  penal  law,  as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1999, is amended and
     3  three new paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) are added to read as follows:
     4    (d) [he or she] such person intentionally damages the  property  of  a
     5  health  care  facility,  or  attempts  to  do  so, because such facility
     6  provides reproductive health  services,  or  intentionally  damages  the
     7  property of a place of religious worship[.]; or
     8    (e) such person makes or causes to be made repeated telephone calls to
     9  a  health  care  facility,  whether or not conversation ensues, with the
    10  intent to impede access to a health care facility's telephone  lines  or
    11  otherwise disrupt a health care facility's activities; or
    12    (f)  such  person  activates  a  device  or  exposes  a substance that
    13  releases noxious and offensive odors within a health  care  facility  or
    14  within one hundred feet of the entrance to such health care facility; or
    15    (g)  such  person intentionally makes noise that can be heard within a
    16  health care facility, after such person has been ordered by law enforce-
    17  ment to cease making such noise, with the intent to either:
    18    (i) jeopardize the health of  persons  receiving  reproductive  health
    19  services within the health care facility; or
    20    (ii)  interfere  with  the safe and effective delivery of reproductive
    21  health services within the health care facility.
    22    § 2. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part
    23  of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction  to
    24  be  invalid  and  after  exhaustion  of all further judicial review, the
    25  judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the  remainder  thereof,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  but  shall  be  confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, para-
     2  graph, section or part of this act directly involved in the  controversy
     3  in which the judgment shall have been rendered.
     4    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.