Assembly Bill A4957

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A4957 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S204
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §627, amd §140, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4957, S204

2023-A4957 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A4957 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4957
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing incarcerat-
   ed individuals 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 627 to read
 as follows:
   § 627. 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  INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS 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.
                                                            LBD01201-01-3

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