S08091 Summary:
| BILL NO | S08091 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | GOLDEN |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan. | |
S08091 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8091 IN SENATE June 12, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to direct the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The commissioner of the New York state department of health 2 is hereby authorized and directed to prepare or have prepared a study of 3 and a remedial plan for the high incidence of asthma in the city of New 4 York. Such study shall include an analysis of high risk neighborhoods 5 examining disparities in: income, race and ethnicity, public and private 6 housing, proximity to major sources of air pollution, and an evaluation 7 of the effectiveness of existing medical facilities. 8 § 2. Such study and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve 9 months of the effective date of this act. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 11 it shall have become a law and the results of such study and the remedi- 12 al plan shall be provided to the governor and the legislature no later 13 than eighteen months from the beginning of such study. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15850-02-6