STATE OF NEW YORK
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1193
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, BORRELLO, CLEARE, COMRIE, PALUMBO, WEIK --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Women's Issues
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to ensuring ovarian
cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health condi-
tions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 2404-e to read as follows:
3 § 2404-e. Ovarian cancer; right to screenings. No person with a
4 personal history of ovarian cancer shall be denied genetic testing or
5 genomic tumor profiling for inherited germline mutations and acquired
6 somatic mutations, respectively. In general, such testing shall not be
7 subject to frequency caps or other limitations and shall include, but
8 not be limited to:
9 (a) genetic mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes;
10 (b) genetic mutations associated with Lynch syndrome;
11 (c) rearrangement analysis of all coding exons associated with ovarian
12 cancer; and
13 (d) additional mutations if medically necessary and appropriate, as
14 determined by the health care professional treating the individual.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02538-01-3
