Bill Text: NY S09526 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES [S09526 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S09526-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9526 IN SENATE May 16, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues 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 24 limited to, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr and 25 Flickr. 26 2. (a) Every search engine, when responding to a search and providing 27 information for listings of abortion or pregnancy care, shall be EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09532-01-3S. 9526 2 1 required to identify and provide a notice to a user or consumer in a 2 clear and conspicuous manner that certain facilities listed are limited 3 services pregnancy centers, otherwise known as crisis pregnancy centers, 4 and do not have licensed medical professionals onsite. 5 (b) Every social media network shall be required to include a notice 6 with any post by a limited services pregnancy center in a clear and 7 conspicuous manner to all users that such facility is a limited services 8 pregnancy center, otherwise known as a crisis pregnancy center, and does 9 not have licensed medical professionals onsite. 10 3. Such notice shall be required to be added to all limited services 11 pregnancy center listings as well as to advertisements purchased by such 12 centers that appear in search engine results and on social media 13 networks. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
