Directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the incidences of asthma in cities having a population of more than ninety thousand and to prepare a report.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2670--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from
said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to direct the New York state department of health to conduct a
study on the incidences of asthma in cities and towns having a popu-
lation of more than ninety thousand
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 the incidences of asthma in all cities and towns having a population of
4 more than ninety thousand inhabitants as determined by the last federal
5 decennial census. Such study shall include an analysis of high risk
6 neighborhoods examining disparities in: income, race and ethnicity,
7 public and private housing, proximity to major sources of air pollution
8 and an evaluation of the effectiveness of existing medical facilities in
9 each city. The study shall include recommendations for evidence-based
10 interventions to address the high burden of asthma in each city and town
11 included in the study.
12 § 2. The study shall be completed and posted on the department of
13 health's website by September thirtieth, two thousand twenty-three.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04418-06-1
