Bill Text: NY S01193 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - referred to health [S01193 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01193-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1193

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. PERSAUD, BORRELLO, CLEARE, COMRIE, PALUMBO, WEIK --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Women's Issues

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to ensuring ovarian
          cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health condi-
          tions

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2404-e to read as follows:
     3    § 2404-e. Ovarian cancer;  right  to  screenings.  No  person  with  a
     4  personal  history  of  ovarian cancer shall be denied genetic testing or
     5  genomic tumor profiling for inherited germline  mutations  and  acquired
     6  somatic  mutations,  respectively. In general, such testing shall not be
     7  subject to frequency caps or other limitations and  shall  include,  but
     8  not be limited to:
     9    (a) genetic mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes;
    10    (b) genetic mutations associated with Lynch syndrome;
    11    (c) rearrangement analysis of all coding exons associated with ovarian
    12  cancer; and
    13    (d)  additional  mutations  if medically necessary and appropriate, as
    14  determined by the health care professional treating the individual.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02538-01-3
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