S 1571: Provides funding for abortion services and travel-related expenses not covered by the military for active duty members of the armed forces of the United States, or their spouses or dependents, who are New York state residents.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1571 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to expanding Medi- caid coverage to include abortion services and travel-related expenses uncovered by the military for certain New York state residents The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (nn) to read as follows: 3 (nn) abortion services, including surgical and pharmaceutical 4 abortions, and any necessary travel-related expenses incurred to receive 5 such services due to the recipient of such services being located within 6 another state or a foreign country where such services could not legally 7 be obtained, which are not covered by any other insurance or the armed 8 forces of the United States, when: 9 (i) such services are provided by a health care practitioner licensed, 10 certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting 11 within the health care practitioner's lawful scope of practice; and 12 (ii) such services are provided to a resident of the state who is an 13 active duty member of the armed forces of the United States, or who is a 14 spouse or dependent of such member. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 19 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00701-01-5