Establishes a campaign to promote public awareness of the importance of good oral health, including but not limited to, the impact of oral disease, causes of oral disease and its prevention, oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection, the value of early detection and the availability of oral health services in the community.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8365--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, ANGELINO, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER,
GRAY, DeSTEFANO, LUPARDO, PAULIN, LUNSFORD, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, JONES,
BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, WALSH --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a
campaign to promote public awareness of the causes of oral disease and
its prevention
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (s) to read as follows:
3 (s) The importance of good oral health, including but not limited to,
4 the impact of oral disease, causes of oral disease and its prevention,
5 oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection, the value of
6 early detection and the availability of oral health services in the
7 community.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
10 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
11 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
12 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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