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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly

A01547 Requires search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing to include a notice to users when searching limited services pregnancy center listings that such limited services pregnancy centers provide limited medical and abortion care and may not have medical professionals onsite; requires social media networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr and Flickr to include such consumer notice on any posts or advertisements by such centers.

Direction

Abortion otherAI label

Restricts abortion access model confidence 80%

Requires search engines and social media to display notices that limited services pregnancy centers (including crisis pregnancy centers) do not provide the full range of reproductive health services reimbursed by Medicaid and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite, so users receive more,

Every search engine, when responding to a search and providing information for listings of abortion or pregnancy care, shall be required to identify and provide a notice to a user or consumer in a clear and conspicuous manner that certain facilities listed are limited services pregnancy centers, otherwise known as crisis pregnancy centers, and do not have licensed medical professionals onsite.

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Abortion provider clinic regulationAI label

Restricts abortion access model confidence 70%

Imposes mandatory consumer disclosure and notice requirements on how limited services pregnancy centers (crisis pregnancy centers) may advertise or be listed online, so more regulation of such providers' advertising practices.

"Limited services pregnancy center" shall mean a facility or entity, including a mobile facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide services to clients who are or may be pregnant, that does not provide or refer for the full range of comprehensive reproductive and sexual health care services reimbursed under the state's Medicaid program.

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  1. Filed (completed)
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Died (session ended)

Last action
2026-01-07: referred to consumer affairs and protection
Filed
2025-01-10
Committee
Consumer Affairs and Protection
Sponsor
Jo Simon D + 11 cosponsors (11 D)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill substantively addresses abortion by defining and targeting "limited services pregnancy centers" (crisis pregnancy centers) that do not offer or refer for the full range of Medicaid-reimbursed reproductive/sexual health services (including abortion), and by mandating specific negative consumer notices on search results and social media posts/ads about them. This regulates their advertising and informs users of limits on their services and staffing, which restricts abortion access by discouraging use of such centers. No other listed topics are substantively addressed.

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History (2 actions)
DateChamberAction
2026-01-07Areferred to consumer affairs and protection
2025-01-10Areferred to consumer affairs and protection