STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

128

2023-2024 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

(Prefiled)

January 4, 2023 ___________

Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, HEVESI, JACOBSON, WALLACE, SIMON, DeSTE- FANO, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SEAWRIGHT, SILLITTI, DINOWITZ, ZINERMAN, L. ROSENTHAL, DAVILA, BARRETT, CRUZ, OTIS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting virginity examinations

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

1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 267-a to read as follows: 3 § 267-a. Prohibition of virginity examinations. No person shall 4 perform a physical examination purporting to determine whether an indi- 5 vidual has previously had vaginal intercourse. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 7 it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01726-01-3