Bill Text: NY A07084 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing to include a notice to users when searching limited services pregnancy center listings that such limited services pregnancy centers provide limited medical and abortion care and may not have medical professionals onsite; requires social media networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr and Flickr to include such consumer notice on any posts or advertisements by such centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A07084 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07084-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7084

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          search  engines and social media networks to include a consumer notice
          on limited services pregnancy center listings and posts

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  394-cccc to read as follows:
     3    §  394-cccc. Search engine consumer notices for limited services preg-
     4  nancy centers. 1. For purposes of  this  section,  the  following  terms
     5  shall have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "Limited services pregnancy center" shall mean a facility or enti-
     7  ty,  including  a  mobile  facility,  the primary purpose of which is to
     8  provide services to clients who are or may be pregnant,  that  does  not
     9  provide  or  refer  for the full range of comprehensive reproductive and
    10  sexual health  care  services  reimbursed  under  the  state's  Medicaid
    11  program.    "Limited services pregnancy center" shall not include health
    12  care facilities licensed by the state of New York under article  twenty-
    13  eight  of the public health law or articles thirty-one and thirty-two of
    14  the mental hygiene law, nor entities whose primary function is to facil-
    15  itate adoption.
    16    (b) "Search engine" shall mean a program that searches for and identi-
    17  fies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters spec-
    18  ified by the user, used  especially  for  finding  particular  sites  or
    19  services  on  the  internet  and  shall  include, but not be limited to,
    20  Google, Yahoo and Bing.
    21    (c) "Social media network" shall mean an internet  platform  which  is
    22  designed  to  enable  users  to share any content with other users or to
    23  make such content available to the public and shall include, but not  be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09532-01-3
        A. 7084                             2

     1  limited  to, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr and
     2  Flickr.
     3    2.  (a) Every search engine, when responding to a search and providing
     4  information for  listings  of  abortion  or  pregnancy  care,  shall  be
     5  required  to  identify  and  provide a notice to a user or consumer in a
     6  clear and conspicuous manner that certain facilities listed are  limited
     7  services pregnancy centers, otherwise known as crisis pregnancy centers,
     8  and do not have licensed medical professionals onsite.
     9    (b)  Every  social media network shall be required to include a notice
    10  with any post by a limited services pregnancy  center  in  a  clear  and
    11  conspicuous manner to all users that such facility is a limited services
    12  pregnancy center, otherwise known as a crisis pregnancy center, and does
    13  not have licensed medical professionals onsite.
    14    3.  Such  notice shall be required to be added to all limited services
    15  pregnancy center listings as well as to advertisements purchased by such
    16  centers that appear  in  search  engine  results  and  on  social  media
    17  networks.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.