Bill Text: NY A10048 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a uterine fibroids awareness and education program on the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of uterine fibroids and the elevated risk for minority women.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - referred to health [A10048 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10048-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10048

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, SIMON, TAYLOR, GIBBS, EACHUS,
          WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          uterine fibroids awareness and education program

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

     1    Section 1. Title 6 of article 2 of the public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new section 267-b to read as follows:
     3    § 267-b.  Uterine fibroids awareness and  education  program.  1.  The
     4  department  shall  conduct  an  ongoing  public  awareness and education
     5  program under section two hundred seven of this article on the symptoms,
     6  diagnosis and treatment of uterine fibroids and the  elevated  risk  for
     7  minority women.
     8    2.  The  department shall produce and distribute educational materials
     9  on the elevated risks of uterine fibroids for minority  women,  symptoms
    10  of  uterine  fibroids  and available treatments. Such materials shall be
    11  made available to appropriate health care providers for distribution  to
    12  patients. The department shall also provide information on the symptoms,
    13  diagnosis  and  treatment  of uterine fibroids and the elevated risk for
    14  minority women on the department's internet  website.  No  provision  of
    15  this  subdivision  shall  be  deemed  to  prohibit  the  utilization and
    16  distribution of educational materials relating thereto produced  by  any
    17  public,  private  or  governmental  entity,  in lieu of the department's
    18  production of such materials.
    19    3. The department shall periodically  review  available  data  on  the
    20  symptoms,  diagnosis  and treatment of uterine fibroids and the elevated
    21  risk for minority women and  update  the  information  provided  in  its
    22  educational materials and on its internet website, as appropriate.
    23    4.  The  department shall report every three years, commencing January
    24  first, two thousand twenty-seven, to the governor, the temporary  presi-
    25  dent of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on the implementation
    26  of  this  section  and any recommendations for furthering the purpose of
    27  this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    5. Implementation of this section shall be contingent upon  and  shall
     2  be conducted within appropriations made therefor.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     7  completed on or before such effective date.