Bill Text: NY S01294 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01294 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01294-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1294--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        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.
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