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NY S04173
Bill
Status
2/3/2025
Primary Sponsor
Kevin Parker
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AI Summary
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Changes the mental state required for criminal interference with health care services or religious worship from "intentionally" to "knowingly" and expands protection to those assisting in obtaining or providing reproductive health services
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Creates new offense for engaging in repeated conduct within 25 feet of reproductive health care facilities or places of religious worship that places others in reasonable fear of harm
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Prohibits recording or photographing patients, providers, or assistants within 100 feet of reproductive health care facilities without consent, with intent to intimidate
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Bans posting personal information or images of reproductive health care patients, providers, or assistants on internet or social media with intent to incite harm or threaten safety
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Establishes a 5-year civil cause of action allowing victims of criminal interference to seek damages and injunctive relief without requiring a criminal conviction
Legislative Description
Enacts the reproductive health care facilities and religious worship access act; provides that the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship shall be established by the mens rea of knowingly injuring, intimidating or interfering with a person obtaining or providing or assisting in obtaining or providing reproductive health services or a place of religious worship; includes in the definition of such crime engaging in a course of conduct or repeatedly committing acts within twenty-five feet of the premises of a reproductive health care facility or a place of religious worship; defines such premises; provides for a civil cause of action for any person harmed by conduct constituting such a crime.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CODES
1/7/2026