Bill Text: NY S07612 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands Medicaid coverage to include abortion services and travel-related expenses uncovered by the military for active duty members of the armed forces of the United States, or their spouses or dependents, who are New York state residents; provides such travel-related expenses include those for such members, or their spouses or dependents, located within another state or a foreign country where they could not legally receive such services due to such active duty status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07612 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07612-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7612

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to expanding  Medi-
          caid coverage to include abortion services and travel-related expenses
          uncovered by the military for certain New York state residents

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (mm) to read as follows:
     3    (mm)   abortion   services,   including  surgical  and  pharmaceutical
     4  abortions, and any necessary travel-related expenses incurred to receive
     5  such services due to the recipient of such services being located within
     6  another state or a foreign country where such services could not legally
     7  be obtained, which are not covered by any other insurance or  the  armed
     8  forces of the United States, when:
     9    (i) such services are provided by a health care practitioner licensed,
    10  certified,  or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting
    11  within his or her lawful scope of practice; and
    12    (ii) such services are provided to a resident of the state who  is  an
    13  active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or who is a
    14  spouse or dependent of such member.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11882-02-3