Bill Text: NY S00104 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 104 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits the performance of virginity examinations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES [S00104 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00104-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         104--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  PERSAUD,  BIAGGI, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, MYRIE -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Women's  Issues  -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          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.
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