New York S 1759: Requires the New York state cancer services program to provide various cancer screenings and diagnostic services at no cost; appropriation

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S01759 Summary:

BILL NOS01759 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05176

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SPONSORPERSAUD

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COSPNSRCOMRIE, FERNANDEZ, RAMOS, SKOUFIS

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2405, 2408, 2409 & 2409-a, Pub Health L

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Requires the New York state cancer services program to provide various cancer screenings and diagnostic services at no cost to certain persons and to provide informational pamphlets on such cancers.

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BILL NOS01759 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1759

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, COMRIE, RAMOS, SKOUFIS -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Finance

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring the New
 York state cancer services program to provide breast cancer, cervical
 cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer and ovarian
 cancer screenings and diagnostic services at no cost to certain
 people; and making an appropriation therefor

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2405 of the public health law, as
 2 amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 109 of the laws of 2010, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 2. The program shall include:
 5 (a) establishment of a statewide public education and outreach
 6 campaign to publicize evidence based cancer detection and education
 7 services, such campaign shall include: general community education,
 8 outreach to specific underserved populations, evidence based clinical
 9 cancer screening services, and an informational summary that shall
 10 include an explanation of the importance of clinical examinations and
 11 what to expect during clinical examinations and cancer screening
 12 services;
 13 (b) provision of grants to approved organizations under section twen-
 14 ty-four hundred six of this title;
 15 (c) compilation of data concerning the cancer detection and education
 16 program and dissemination of the data to the public; [and]
 17 (d) development of professional education programs including the bene-
 18 fits of early detection of cancer and clinical examinations, the recom-
 19 mended frequency of clinical examinations and cancer screening services,
 20 and professionally recognized best practices guidelines;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05049-01-5

 S. 1759 2

 1 (e) a requirement of providing cancer screening and diagnostic
 2 services for cancers including, but not limited to, breast cancer,
 3 cervical cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer and
 4 ovarian cancer; and
 5 (f) an informational pamphlet pertaining to breast cancer, cervical
 6 cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, testicular cancer and ovarian
 7 cancer including, but not limited to: information on early detections
 8 and treatments of such cancers; contact information, including but not
 9 limited to, the program's phone number, contact email, and website for
 10 the purposes of the department educating patients; and a telephone
 11 number for the office of professional medical conduct in the department
 12 and the office of the professions in the department of education, at
 13 which a patient may report any misconduct that the patient feels may
 14 have occurred. The informational pamphlet shall be posted as a print-
 15 able file on the department's internet website and may also be made
 16 available for order as a printed deliverable on the department's inter-
 17 net website. The informational pamphlet shall be written in layperson's
 18 language and shall be made available in English and the six most common
 19 non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited English profi-
 20 ciency in New York state as based on the most recent census.
 21 § 2. Section 2408 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 430
 22 of the laws of 2005, is a