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The Reproductive Health Act is a New York statute enacted on January 22, 2019, that protects abortion rights, decriminalized abortion, and eliminated several restrictions on voluntary abortions in the state. [1] The RHA repealed §4164 of the state Public Health Law. [2] The law has received national media attention.
The Family Health Care Decisions Act [1] (the FHCDA) is a New York State statute that enables a patient's family member or close friend to make health care treatment decisions if the patient lacks capacity and did not make the decision in advance or appoint a health care agent. It also creates a bedside process to determine patient incapacity ...
The New York Farm Bureau supported the bill. [22] The district attorneys of Albany County and New York County (Manhattan), David Soares and Cyrus Vance Jr., published an op-ed in the New York Daily News supporting the bill, citing its correction of racial injustice and the freeing up of finite law enforcement resources for other matters. [23]
1909. The Consolidated Laws of the State of New York are the codification of the permanent laws of a general nature of New York enacted by the New York State Legislature. [1][2] It is composed of several chapters, or laws. New York uses a system called "continuous codification" whereby each session law clearly identifies the law and section of ...
The government of New York state initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a stay-at-home order in March 2020. As the pandemic progressed in New York state and throughout the rest of the country, the state government, following recommendations issued by the U.S. government regarding state and local government responses, began imposing social distancing measures and workplace hazard ...
Mental Hygiene Law. The Department of Mental Hygiene (DMH) is an agency of the New York state government composed of three autonomous offices: the Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) the Office of Mental Health (OMH) the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) [1] These offices are headed up by a commissioner who ...
Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013. The Public Health Service Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1944. [2] The full act is codified in Title 42 of the United States Code (The Public Health and Welfare), Chapter 6A (Public Health Service). [3] This Act provided a legislative basis for the provision of ...
New York was the second state, after Hawaii, to enact landmark abortion law legislation. [17] Unlike Hawaii, however, New York's abortion law did not have a 90-day residency requirement. Between 1970 and 1973, the New York General Assembly attempted to repeal their law that made abortion legal.