S520 • 2025

Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions

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Sponsor: Roxanne J. Persaud
Last action: 2026-05-29
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions

Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions.

What This Bill Does

Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions.

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Bill History

2026-05-29 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-29 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-29 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2026-05-14 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-13 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-12 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1038
2026-02-25 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES
2025-06-04 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-04 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2025-05-29 Senate
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-05-29 Senate
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1461
2025-03-11 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-01-08 Senate
REFERRED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES

Official Summary Text

Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions
Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           520

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, BORRELLO, CLEARE, COMRIE, PALUMBO, ROLISON,
          WEBER,  WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Women's Issues

        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