New York A 5724: Expands the health education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings

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A05724 Summary:

BILL NOA05724 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06498

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

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02/20/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5724

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee 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.
 LBD09929-01-5

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