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Int 1621-2017

Clarifying that gender reassignment surgery that will result in sterilization is not subject to a waiting period.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Healthintroduced 2017-05-24

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2017-05-24Passed: 2017-12-31

Summary

This bill would amend the City’s sterilization waiting period and consent law by clarifying that medical procedures that do not have sterilization as their primary purpose, but which instead may sterilize the patient as a byproduct of such procedure, such as some gender reassignment surgeries, are not subject to the provisions of such law.

Committee on HealthDepartment of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and EMS (health-related issues).

How it compares

40% of similar bills passed

20 passed · 30 died

This bill: 220 days in committee

Similar bills: median 512 days · 137 days when passed

Sponsors (2)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2017-05-24 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2017-05-24 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2017-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2017-05-24 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (3)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 17-402 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows: 1. "Sterilization" shall mean any procedure or operation, the purpose of which is to render an individual permanently incapable of reproducing. The term "sterilization" shall not include any procedure or operation for which the rendering of an individual incapable of reproducing is solely an incidental effect of such procedure or operation. � 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law; provided, however, that the department of health and mental hygiene shall promulgate rules or undertake such other actions as may be necessary for timely implementation of this local law, prior to its effective date. DSS LS 8651 8/5/16 2