Extradition of gender-affirming care providers, seekers, parents, guardians, and helpers · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 570.19 Extradition of gender-affirming care providers, seekers,
parents, guardians, and helpers.
No demand for the extradition of a person subject to criminal liability that is in whole or part based on the alleged provision or receipt of, support for, or any theory of vicarious, joint, several or conspiracy liability for gender-affirming care, as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section sixty-five hundred thirty-one-b of the education law, lawfully performed in New York shall be recognized by the governor unless the executive authority of the demanding state shall allege in writing that the accused was present in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the alleged offense, and that thereafter he, she or they fled from that state.
The governor may not recognize an extradition demand based wholly or partly on gender-affirming care lawfully performed in New York, including alleged provision, receipt, support, or vicarious, joint, several, or conspiracy liability, unless the demanding state alleges in writing that the accused was there when the alleged offense occurred and later fled. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Officer: Criminal Procedure Law; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.