Meeting Name: Committee on Health Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 6/12/2023 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Council Chambers - City Hall
Jointly with the Committee on Women and Gender Equity.
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T2023-3459 *   Oversight - Current State of Access to Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ Individuals.Oversight Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
T2023-3459 *   Oversight - Current State of Access to Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ Individuals.Oversight Filed, by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 0066-2022 *Public Advocate Jumaane Williams  Signage regarding transgender rights and services at hospitals.IntroductionThis bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to distribute signs on an individual’s right to be referred to by a preferred name, title, gender and pronoun to every hospital in the city. This bill would also require DOHMH to establish guidance to encourage hospitals to list and conspicuously post the transgender-specific services offered by each hospital, and would require DOHMH to post such guidance on its website. DOHMH would also be required to coordinate with hospitals to update such list of transgender-specific services, and post the list of services and any updates on the department’s website.Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 0066-2022 *Public Advocate Jumaane Williams  Signage regarding transgender rights and services at hospitals.IntroductionThis bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to distribute signs on an individual’s right to be referred to by a preferred name, title, gender and pronoun to every hospital in the city. This bill would also require DOHMH to establish guidance to encourage hospitals to list and conspicuously post the transgender-specific services offered by each hospital, and would require DOHMH to post such guidance on its website. DOHMH would also be required to coordinate with hospitals to update such list of transgender-specific services, and post the list of services and any updates on the department’s website.Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1074-2023 *Crystal Hudson  Prohibiting the use of city resources to enforce restrictions on gender-affirming care.IntroductionThis bill would prohibit the use of city resources to detain any person for seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating gender-affirming care in the state of New York, or outside the state of New York in circumstances where such conduct would have been lawful had it occurred in the state of New York. The bill further prohibits the use of city resources to cooperate with an investigation of a person on grounds that such person is known or believed to have sought, obtained, provided, or facilitated gender-affirming care outside the state of New York under circumstances where their conduct would have been lawful had it occurred in the state of New York.Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1074-2023 *Crystal Hudson  Prohibiting the use of city resources to enforce restrictions on gender-affirming care.IntroductionThis bill would prohibit the use of city resources to detain any person for seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating gender-affirming care in the state of New York, or outside the state of New York in circumstances where such conduct would have been lawful had it occurred in the state of New York. The bill further prohibits the use of city resources to cooperate with an investigation of a person on grounds that such person is known or believed to have sought, obtained, provided, or facilitated gender-affirming care outside the state of New York under circumstances where their conduct would have been lawful had it occurred in the state of New York.Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
Res 0256-2022 *Tiffany Cabán  COVID-19 Long Haulers ActResolution Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Res 0256-2022 *Tiffany Cabán  COVID-19 Long Haulers ActResolution Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
Res 0555-2023 *Crystal Hudson  Protect access to gender-affirming care in New York State and combat policies of other states that attempt to ban gender-affirming care. (S. 2475)Resolution Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Res 0555-2023 *Crystal Hudson  Protect access to gender-affirming care in New York State and combat policies of other states that attempt to ban gender-affirming care. (S. 2475)Resolution Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
Res 0591-2023 *Lynn C. Schulman  Protect New York State’s safety net providers and Special Needs Plans by eliminating the Medicaid pharmacy carve-out.Resolution Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Res 0591-2023 *Lynn C. Schulman  Protect New York State’s safety net providers and Special Needs Plans by eliminating the Medicaid pharmacy carve-out.Resolution Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
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