Bill > S1981

Introduced Session

This bill prohibits certain medical examinations on female patients without informed consent. Under the bill, a medical student enrolled in a clinical clerkship, post-graduate resident in medical training, or any student is not to perform an examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless a supervising health care practitioner first obtains the patient's informed consent to the examination, or the performance of the examination is medically necessary. The female patient is to be permitted to choose to undergo an examination prior to or after the administration of anesthesia if the examination is within the scope of the procedure to be performed on the female patient, or if it is determined prior to the procedure that the examination is medically necessary.

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Linda Greenstein (D)*, 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee (on 02/25/2020)