Bill Text: NY A05517 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 5517 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits the performance of virginity examinations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-08 - REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES [A05517 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05517-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5517--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 19, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SOLAGES, GOTTFRIED, HEVESI, JACOBSON, WALLACE,
          SIMON,  FERNANDEZ,  DeSTEFANO,  NOLAN,  BICHOTTE HERMELYN,  SEAWRIGHT,
          SILLITTI,  DINOWITZ,  BARRON, GALEF, ZINERMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M. of A.  THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Health
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee --  reported  and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.
                                                                   LBD02831-04-1