Senate Bill S517

                             
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                                    517
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  PERSAUD,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to creating an educa-
   tional pamphlet regarding the importance of prostate-specific  antigen
   testing

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2404-a of the public  health  law,  as  amended  by
 chapter 335 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2404-a.  Prostate  cancer; duty to inform; EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET. 1.
 The commissioner shall  develop  [a  standardized  written  summary]  AN
 EDUCATIONAL  PAMPHLET,  in  plain  non-technical  language,  which shall
 explain the following:
   (a) the symptoms and risk factors for prostate cancer;
   (b) the available methods for the detection and diagnosis of  prostate
 cancer,  including information on the relative accuracy of the available
 detection and diagnostic techniques,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,
 PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN TESTING;
   (c)  the  availability  of insurance coverage for diagnostic screening
 for prostate cancer without cost sharing pursuant to subparagraph (B) of
 paragraph eleven-a of subsection  (i)  of  section  three  thousand  two
 hundred  sixteen,  subparagraph  (B) of paragraph eleven-a of subsection
 (1) of section three thousand two hundred twenty-one and  paragraph  two
 of  subsection (z-1) of section four thousand three hundred three of the
 insurance law; and
   (d) the alternative medically  viable  methods  of  treating  prostate
 cancer, including but not limited to hormonal, radiological, chemothera-
 peutic  or  surgical  treatments, or combinations thereof. The [summary]
 EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET shall contain information on  prostate  post-treat-
 ment risks and other pertinent information to aid a person in deciding a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 course of treatment. The [summary] EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET shall be updated
 as is necessary.
   2.  The [summary] EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET shall be provided to any health
 care provider or practitioner providing medical treatment to [adult men]
 ADULTS WITH A PROSTATE without charge or fee for distribution in accord-
 ance with subdivision three of this section.
   3. The [standardized written summary]  EDUCATIONAL  PAMPHLET  provided
 for  by subdivision one of this section may be provided by a health care
 provider to [each person] ADULTS   WITH A PROSTATE under  [his  or  her]
 THEIR  care [who]. HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS MAY PROVIDE TO AND DISCUSS WITH
 EACH ADULT WITH A PROSTATE UNDER THEIR  CARE  THE  EDUCATIONAL  PAMPHLET
 WHERE  SUCH  ADULT  WITH  A  PROSTATE  is or may be at risk for prostate
 cancer or who has been diagnosed to be afflicted  with  prostate  cancer
 upon said diagnosis, or as soon thereafter as practicable.  THE INFORMA-
 TIONAL  PAMPHLET  SHALL  BE WRITTEN IN LAYPERSON'S LANGUAGE AND SHALL BE
 MADE AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND THE SIX MOST COMMON NON-ENGLISH  LANGUAGES
 SPOKEN BY INDIVIDUALS WITH LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN NEW YORK STATE
 AS BASED ON THE MOST RECENT CENSUS.
   4.  Nothing  in  this  section shall be construed to create a cause of
 action for lack of informed consent in any instance in which such  cause
 of  action  would  be  limited by section twenty-eight hundred five-d of
 this chapter.
   [5. The commissioner shall have the written summary, required by  this
 section,  completed  and  prepared for distribution on or before January
 first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight.]
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.