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Assembly Bill A5724

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands the health education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings

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2025-A5724 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6498
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §804, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9689, S7095
2021-2022: A3715, S1294
2023-2024: A5636, S2280

2025-A5724 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the health education curriculum to include breast cancer screenings including age appropriate instruction in performing self-examinations.

2025-A5724 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5724
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 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:

   Section 1. This act shall be known and my be cited as "Siena's Law".
   § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 804 of the education law, as amended  by
 chapter 390 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   5.  A.  Instruction  regarding  methods of prevention and detection of
 certain cancers, including  but  not  limited  to  breast  cancer,  skin
 cancer,  testicular  cancer  and  other cancers where certain preventive
 measures have become generally accepted and  certain  detection  methods
 have been adopted and recommended generally to the public. Such instruc-
 tion  shall be an integral part of a required health education course at
 the senior high school level, in addition to continued  health  guidance
 in  senior  high  schools.  Any  such course shall be taught by teachers
 holding a certificate to  teach  health.  WITH  RESPECT  TO  INSTRUCTION
 REGARDING BREAST CANCER, SUCH INSTRUCTION SHALL INCLUDE AGE AND DEVELOP-
 MENTALLY APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTION IN PERFORMING SELF-EXAMINATIONS.
   B. IN ADDITION TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION,
 WITH  RESPECT  TO THE INSTRUCTION REGARDING BREAST CANCER, SUCH INSTRUC-
 TION MAY BE OFFERED IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS AS DEEMED APPROPRI-
 ATE BY LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION AND THE CHANCELLOR OF THE  CITY  SCHOOL
 DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 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.
                                                            LBD09929-01-5

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