S 768: Provides incarcerated individuals with access to breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing in accordance with certain nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 768 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to breast cancer screen- ing and diagnostic testing for incarcerated individuals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 627 of the correction law, as added by a chapter of 2 the laws of 2024 amending the correction law relating to providing 3 incarcerated individuals with access to breast cancer screenings and 4 information about breast self-examinations, as proposed in legislative 5 bills numbers S. 204 and A. 4957, is amended to read as follows: 6 § 627. [Routine mammogram screenings] Breast cancer screening and 7 diagnostic testing. [Routine mammogram screenings] Breast cancer screen- 8 ing and diagnostic testing shall be offered [every two years] in accord- 9 ance with nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines for the 10 detection of breast cancer unless otherwise recommended by a physician 11 at no cost to individuals housed in state and local correctional facili- 12 ties used for the general confinement of [inmates] incarcerated individ- 13 uals and in any other state or local facility where individuals are 14 detained or confined by law enforcement agencies. For the purposes of 15 this section, "nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines" means 16 evidence-based clinical practice guidelines informed by a systematic 17 review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and risks of alter- 18 native care options intended to optimize patient care, developed by 19 independent organizations or medical professional societies utilizing a 20 transparent methodology and reporting structure and with a conflict-of- 21 interest policy. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 23 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the correction law 24 relating to providing incarcerated individuals with access to breast 25 cancer screenings and information about breast self-examinations, as 26 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 204 and A. 4957, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02909-01-5