New York S 10124: Requires search engines and social media networks to include a consumer notice on limited services pregnancy center listings and posts

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S10124 Summary:

BILL NOS10124 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01547

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SPONSORBOTTCHER

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COSPNSRJACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §394-cccc, Gen Bus L

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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.

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BILL NOS10124 

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04/30/2026REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10124

 IN SENATE

 April 30, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. BOTTCHER, JACKSON -- 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.
 LBD04754-01-5

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 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.

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