New York S 1970: Prohibits discrimination against religious attire

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S01970 Summary:

BILL NOS01970 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09090

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SPONSORMURRAY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2509-b, Pub Health L; amd §213, add Art 10-D §§1099 - 1099-c, Fam Ct Act

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Requires parental notice prior to the performance of an abortion upon an unemancipated minor; defines unemancipated minor as person less than eighteen years of age; allows for waiver of such notice in limited instances; establishes circumstances and procedures for proceedings to obtain an order waiving such parental notification.

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BILL NOS01970 

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1970

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the family court act, in
 relation to notice of abortions performed on unemancipated minors

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative purpose and findings. It is the intent of this
 2 legislature in enacting this parental notice provision to further the
 3 important and compelling state interests of protecting minors against
 4 their own immaturity, fostering the family structure and preserving it
 5 as a viable social unit, protecting the rights of parents to rear chil-
 6 dren who are members of their household, and protecting the health of
 7 minor children.
 8 The legislature finds that immature minors often lack the ability to
 9 make fully-informed choices that take account of both immediate and
 10 long-range consequences and that the medical, emotional and psycholog-
 11 ical consequences of abortion are serious and can be lasting, partic-
 12 ularly when the patient is immature. The legislature further finds that
 13 the capacity to become pregnant and the capacity for mature judgment
 14 concerning the wisdom of an abortion are not necessarily related. The
 15 legislature finds that parents ordinarily possess information essential
 16 to a physician's exercise of such physician's best medical judgment
 17 concerning the child and, further, that parents who are aware that their
 18 minor child has had an abortion may better ensure that such child
 19 receives adequate medical attention after such child's abortion. The
 20 legislature concludes then, that parental consultation is usually desir-
 21 able and in the best interest of the minor.
 22 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2509-b
 23 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01521-01-5

 S. 1970 2

 1 § 2509-b. Notification of abortions on unemancipated minors. 1. Defi-
 2 nitions. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions
 3 will apply:
 4 (a) "unemancipated minor" means a person who has not attained the age
 5 of eighteen years and is not an emancipated minor as defined in para-
 6 graph (b) of this subdivision.
 7 (b) "emancipated minor" means a minor who is or has been lawfully
 8 married or has by court order or otherwise been freed from the care,
 9 custody and control of her parents.
 10 (c) "abortion" means the use of any instrument, medicine, drug or any
 11 other substance or device with intent to terminate the pregnancy of a
 12 woman known to be pregnant with intent other than to increase the proba-
 13 bility of a live birth, to preserve the life or health of the child
 14 after live birth, or to remove a dead fetus.
 15 (d) "medical emergency" means that condition which, on the basis of
 16 the physician's good faith clinical judgment, so complicates the medical
 17 condition of the pregnant minor as to necessitate the immediate abortion
 18 of her pregnancy to avert her death or for which delay will create seri-
 19 ous risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily
 20 functio