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A01756 Summary:

BILL NOA01756 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRPaulin, Seawright, Jackson

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 2 Title 6 §266-a, Pub Health L

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Establishes a pregnant persons' bill of rights; requires posting and disclosing such bill of rights; establishes a penalty for failure to post or disclose such bill of rights.

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BILL NOA01756 

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01/14/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1756

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, PAULIN, SEAWRIGHT, JACKSON -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a
 pregnant persons' bill of rights

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

 1 Section 1. Title 6 of article 2 of the public health law, as added by
 2 chapter 342 of the laws of 2014, is amended by adding a new section
 3 266-a to read as follows:
 4 § 266-a. Pregnant persons' bill of rights. 1. Any healthcare profes-
 5 sional who could reasonably foresee having pregnant persons as patients
 6 shall conspicuously post a pregnant persons' bill of rights to be issued
 7 by the department. The bill of rights shall be written in plain English,
 8 and shall be made available in other languages, including but not limit-
 9 ed to Spanish, French, Chinese and Russian. The pregnant persons' bill
 10 of rights shall include, but not limited to the:
 11 (a) right of decisionally capable pregnant persons to refuse treat-
 12 ment, even if the refusal could result in the loss of life;
 13 (b) requirement of doctors to receive informed consent from a pregnant
 14 person before performing any medical procedure;
 15 (c) requirement that coercion may not be used to receive that consent,
 16 nor may appeals to conscience or morality;
 17 (d) requirement that care should be provided in a culturally sensitive
 18 environment;
 19 (e) requirement that counseling and therapy should be made available
 20 to anyone who experiences an adverse outcome as a result of refusing
 21 treatment, but such counseling and therapy should not be required and
 22 pregnant persons have the right to refuse the therapy;
 23 (f) requirement that pregnant persons have the right to choose which
 24 medical procedures such pregnant person agrees to, without pressure
 25 throughout pregnancy and delivery;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04851-01-5

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 1 (g) right to request room, doctor or nurse change at any point;
 2 (h) right to know doctor's methods;
 3 (i) right to change such pregnant person's mind with respect to any
 4 treatment decision at any point;
 5 (j) right of pregnant persons to be in any position they want so long
 6 as it is medically indicated as safe;
 7 (k) right of pregnant persons to know the risks associated with any
 8 and all tests or procedures;
 9 (l) right of pregnant persons to receive or refuse any type of
 10 emotional, social, psychological or physical support people have before,
 11 during and after labor;
 12 (m) right of pregnant persons to choose birth setting;
 13 (n) right of pregnant persons to refuse or accept any administered
 14 drug/treatment; and
 15 (o) right of pregnant persons to receive information about any poten-
 16 tial direct or indirect effects, risks, hazards to such pregnant person
 17 and fetus because of a drug or procedure.
 18 2. Before a healthcare professional commences a physical examination
 19 or any treatment of a pregnant person, the healthcare professional
 20 conducting the exam shall inform the person of the pregnant persons'
 21 bill of rights by providing a copy of such bill of rights and offering
 22 to explain such rights.
 23 3. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall result
 24 in a penalty of five hundred dollars for the first violation, and for
 25 the second and each subseq