The Reproductive Health Act, A6112 (Glick), passed the Assembly Health Committee on May 31, 2011 by a vote of 18 to 8. It now awaits action in the Assembly Codes Committee. If the bill manages to pass both houses of the Legislature and is signed into law it would radically expand abortion rights in New York State, potentially even allowing for partial birth abortion.

The State Legislature succeeded in passing an on-time budget for the first time in five years. Despite some protestors and other efforts to disrupt the process, the State Senate managed to pass all of the budget bills before midnight March 30^th. The State Assembly wrapped its work up around 1:00 AM early March 31^st. 

S892 (Krueger) / A85 (Paulin)

The proposed Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Act would expand the availability of Emergency Contraception (EC) by allowing for new classes of prescribers (namely minors), mandating insurance coverage, and requiring educational efforts.

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S2524 (Klein) / S2844 (Stewart-Cousins) / A6112 (Glick)

This bill, known as the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHAPP), was first introduced by former Governor Eliot Spitzer in 2008 and was carried in the State Senate by Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers). The bill was deemed too radical for even the liberal Democratic leadership in the State Assembly and could not find a sponsor in that house until 2010. In mid-June 2010, Asm. Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan) became the sponsor of the Assembly's companion bill. Then in early 2011, Senator Jeff Klein (D-Brooklyn) sponsored his own version of the Reproductive Health Act.