Bill Text: NY K00554 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Resolution 554 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim October 13-19, 2019, as Male Breast Cancer Awareness Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-13 - adopted [K00554 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-K00554-Introduced.html


Assembly Resolution No. 554

BY: M. of A. Benedetto

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        October 13-19, 2019, as Male Breast Cancer Awareness
        Week in the State of New York

  WHEREAS,  It  is  the  custom  of this Legislative Body to recognize
official weeks that are set  aside  to  increase  awareness  of  serious
health issues that affect the lives of citizens of New York State; and

  WHEREAS,  Attendant  to  such  concern,  and in full accord with its
long-standing traditions, it is the sense of this  Legislative  Body  to
memorialize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim October 13-19, 2019, as
Male Breast Cancer Awareness Week in the State of New York; and

  WHEREAS,  An  estimated  450 men die from breast cancer each year, a
number that is expected only to increase; and

  WHEREAS, Breast cancer is widely believed to be a  disease  confined
to  women,  and  due  to  a  general lack of awareness that men can also
develop breast cancer, men are typically diagnosed during the  disease's
later stages; and

  WHEREAS,  Promoting awareness and education about male breast cancer
is crucial to improving the health and well-being of men throughout  the
State   and   nation,  facilitating  earlier  detection,  improving  the
prognoses  of  men  who  have  been  diagnosed  with  the  disease,  and
ultimately preventing further loss of life; and

  WHEREAS, In remembrance of the many men who have lost their lives to
breast  cancer,  and in support of those who are currently fighting this
often  overlooked  disease,  every  citizen,  whether  male  or  female,
including  parents,  siblings,  spouses,  educators,  and physicians, is
encouraged to take part in spreading awareness of  male  breast  cancer;
now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim October 13-19, 2019, as
Male Breast Cancer Awareness Week in the State of New York;  and  be  it
further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the  State  of
New York.