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Senate Bill S5119

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides inmates with access to breast cancer screenings and information about breast self-examinations

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2021-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2147
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §626, amd §140, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A11159
2023-2024: A4957

2021-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides inmates with access to breast cancer screenings every two years and information about breast self-examinations.

2021-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5119 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5119
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
   Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the correction law, in relation to providing inmates
   with access to breast cancer screenings and information  about  breast
   self-examinations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "Eleonora
 legacy act".
   § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 626 to read
 as follows:
   §  626.  ROUTINE  MAMMOGRAM  SCREENINGS.  ROUTINE MAMMOGRAM SCREENINGS
 SHALL BE OFFERED EVERY TWO YEARS AT NO COST  TO  INDIVIDUALS  HOUSED  IN
 STATE AND LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES USED FOR THE GENERAL CONFINEMENT
 OF  INMATES  AND  IN ANY OTHER STATE OR LOCAL FACILITY WHERE INDIVIDUALS
 ARE DETAINED OR CONFINED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
   § 3. Section 140 of the correction law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL,  TO  THE  BEST OF ITS ABILITY, PROVIDE ALL
 SENTENCED INMATES WITH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF
 PREVENTATIVE HEALTH CARE MEASURES THAT INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED  TO,
 BREAST SELF-EXAMINATIONS.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall become have a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04968-01-1

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