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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly

A09335 Relates to certain crimes of interference with health care services or access to places of religious worship; expands interference to include groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate twenty-five feet outside of reproductive health care facilities and places of religious worship.

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Abortion provider clinic regulationAI label

Restricts abortion access model confidence 90%

Expands the definition of criminal interference with reproductive health services to include groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate within 25 feet of reproductive health care facilities, creating a new buffer zone that restricts such demonstrations.

(e) groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demon- strate outside of a reproductive health care facility fail to maintain twenty-five feet of distance from such facility, including its parking lot entrances, driveway and driveway entrances of such facilities;

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Abortion bans gestational limitsAI label

Restricts abortion access model confidence 70%

Broadens the existing criminal interference statute (which already covers interference with obtaining or providing reproductive health services, including termination of pregnancy) by adding buffer-zone and demonstration restrictions around reproductive health facilities.

the term "reproductive health services" means health care services provided in a hospital, clinic, physician's office or other facility and includes medical, surgical, counseling or referral services relating to the human reproductive system, including services relating to pregnancy or the termination of a pregnancy

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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 codes
Filed
2025-12-10
Committee
Codes
Sponsor
Micah Lasher D + 26 cosponsors (18 D, 8 R)

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill amends Penal Law 240.70 to expand criminal interference offenses to cover reproductive health services (explicitly including termination of pregnancy) and adds new provisions criminalizing groups demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate within 25 feet of reproductive health care facilities or places of religious worship. This creates buffer zones that limit protest activity near abortion providers, which restricts access-related interference but in practice narrows the space for anti-abortion demonstrations, thereby restricting abortion access under the topic's axis. It also updates,

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History (2 actions)
DateChamberAction
2026-01-07Areferred to codes
2025-12-10Areferred to codes