Bill Text: NY A00686 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to health [A00686 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A00686-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 686 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health 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. LBD02193-01-5
