BILL NUMBER: S3987
SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to medical residency
training
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To require hospitals, which receive reimbursement for medical residency
training, to provide for training in all methods of family planning
including induced abortions except for residents with moral or religious
objections.
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2801-i.
Section 2: This act shall take effect on the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
This legislation was prompted by the near disappearance of routine
abortion training from ob/gyn residency programs and the resultant
provider shortage that often impedes and sometimes prevents women from
exercising their basic right to terminate a pregnancy.
This legislation mirrors the unanimously adopted policy of the Accredi-
tation Council on Graduate Medical Education. This bill would provide a
fiscal penalty, lack of reimbursement, for a failure to provide the
required training.
Even though abortion services are more available in New York than in
other states, only 19% of our ob/gyn programs routinely train their
residents in the abortion procedure. Furthermore, we continue to witness
the results of the continuing shortage in our state: 25 counties have no
abortion provider, New York experienced the second highest numerical
loss of providers in the country from 1988-1992, and Planned Parenthood
of New York City reports having had to reschedule appointments when a
substitute provider cannot be found.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023-24: S6368 - Referred to Health
2021-22: S5207 - Referred to Health
2019-20: S.4813-Referred to Health
2017-18: S.7366 - REFERRED TO HEALTH
2015-16: A3693 referred to health
2013-14: A.3903 Referred to Health
2011-2012: A.2944 Referred to Health
2009-10: A.2715 Referred to Health
2007-08: A.2266 referred to Health
2005-06: A.5441 - Referred to Health
2003-04: A.947 - Referred to Health
2002: A.2411 - Reported from Health to Rules
2000: S.2290 - Referred to Health/ A.4054 Referred to Health
1998: A.7081-A referred to Health
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.