As used in the Reproductive and Gender-Affirming Health Care Protection Act:

1. A. "gender-affirming health care" means psychological, behavioral, surgical, pharmaceutical and medical care, services and supplies provided to support an individual's gender identity;

2. B. "protected health care activity" means:

   1. (1) seeking, providing or receiving reproductive or gender-affirming health care; or

   2. (2) assisting an individual who is seeking, receiving or providing reproductive or gender-affirming health care, including providing:

      1. (a) information;
      2. (b) transportation;
      3. (c) lodging; or
      4. (d) material support;
3. C. "public body" means a state or local government, an advisory board, a commission, an agency or an entity created by the constitution of New Mexico or a branch of government that receives public funding, including political subdivisions, special tax districts, school districts and institutions of higher education; and

4. D. "reproductive health care" means psychological, behavioral, surgical, pharmaceutical and medical care, services and supplies that relate to the human reproductive system, including services related to:

   1. (1) preventing a pregnancy;
   2. (2) abortion;
   3. (3) managing a pregnancy loss;
   4. (4) prenatal, birth, perinatal and postpartum health;
   5. (5) managing perimenopause and menopause;
   6. (6) managing infertility;
   7. (7) treating cancers of the reproductive system; or
   8. (8) preventing sexually transmitted infections.

History: Laws 2023, ch. 167, § 2.

ANNOTATIONS

Effective dates. — Laws 2023, ch. 167 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 16, 2023, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.