Bill Text: NY S02280 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the health education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings including age appropriate instruction in performing self-examinations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02280 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02280-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2280

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  expanding  health
          education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and my be cited as "Siena's Law".
     2    § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 804 of the education law, as amended  by
     3  chapter 390 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    5.  a.  Instruction  regarding  methods of prevention and detection of
     5  certain cancers, including  but  not  limited  to  breast  cancer,  skin
     6  cancer,  testicular  cancer  and  other cancers where certain preventive
     7  measures have become generally accepted and  certain  detection  methods
     8  have been adopted and recommended generally to the public. Such instruc-
     9  tion  shall be an integral part of a required health education course at
    10  the senior high school level, in addition to continued  health  guidance
    11  in  senior  high  schools.  Any  such course shall be taught by teachers
    12  holding a certificate to  teach  health.  With  respect  to  instruction
    13  regarding breast cancer, such instruction shall include age and develop-
    14  mentally appropriate instruction in performing self-examinations.
    15    b. In addition to the requirements of paragraph a of this subdivision,
    16  with  respect  to the instruction regarding breast cancer, such instruc-
    17  tion may be offered in elementary and middle schools as deemed appropri-
    18  ate by local boards of education and the chancellor of the  city  school
    19  district of the city of New York.
    20    §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    21  the date on which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06702-01-3