Add S23, Pub Health L; add S401-c, V & T L; add S81, St Fin L
Establishes the save our sight program and the save our sight fund to promote vision health and safety for children; targets children with amblyopia for support regarding such children's vision; provides for information to be disseminated by the department of motor vehicles and for voluntary contributions to the fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3427--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 25, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. BOYLAND, COLTON, LAVINE, WEISENBERG -- 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, the vehicle and traffic law and
the state finance law, in relation to establishing the save our sight
program and the save our sight fund
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 23
2 to read as follows:
3 § 23. Save our sight program. The commissioner, in consultation with
4 the commissioner of motor vehicles, is hereby authorized and directed to
5 establish within the department, a save our sight program. Such program
6 shall:
7 1. provide support to nonprofit organizations that offer vision
8 screening and education services;
9 2. implement a voluntary children's vision screening training and
10 certification program for volunteers, child day-care providers, nurses,
11 teachers, health care professionals practicing in primary care settings
12 and for other persons serving children;
13 3. develop and implement a registry and targeted voluntary case
14 management system to determine whether children with amblyopia are
15 receiving professional eye care and to provide parents and legal guardi-
16 ans of children with amblyopia with information and support regarding
17 such children's vision;
18 4. establish a matching grant program for the purchase and distrib-
19 ution of protective eyewear to children;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 5. provide vision health and safety programs and materials to class-
2 rooms; and
3 6. for the purposes of section four hundred one-c of the vehicle and
4 traffic law, to develop materials on the importance of eye care and
5 safety and to deliver such materials to the commissioner of motor vehi-
6 cles for distribution pursuant to section four hundred one-c of the
7 vehicle and traffic law.
8 § 2. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new section
9 401-c to read as follows:
10 § 401-c. Save our sight program; voluntary contribution. In addition
11 to the fees collected pursuant to this article, every application for
12 registration or renewal registration of a motor vehicle and every appli-
13 cation for an operator's license or for renewal thereof shall provide an
14 option to the owner of the vehicle being registered or applicant to make
15 a one-dollar voluntary contribution to the save our sight fund estab-
16 lished pursuant to section eighty-one of the state finance law. The
17 commissioner shall collect such additional one dollar from any person
18 who opts to contribute to such fund. The commissioner shall also make
19 available to every person applying for registration or renewal registra-
20 tion of a motor vehicle and every application for an operator's license
21 or for renewal thereof materials on the importance of eye care and safe-
22 ty provided by the commissioner of health pursuant to section twenty-
23 three of the public health law. The commissioner shall forward all
24 moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this section to the comp-
25 troller for deposit into the save our sight fund established pursuant to
26 section eighty-one of the state finance law.
27 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 81 to
28 read as follows:
29 § 81. Save our sight fund. 1. There is hereby established in the
30 custody of the state comptroller, a fund to be known as the save our
31 sight fund.
32 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated for the purpose
33 of such fund, all moneys transferred to such fund pursuant to law and
34 all moneys required to be paid to the credit of such fund pursuant to
35 section four hundred one-c of the vehicle and traffic law.
36 3. Moneys of the fund shall be available for appropriation and allo-
37 cation only to the commissioner of health for the purposes of carrying
38 out the provisions of section twenty-three of the public health law and
39 section four hundred one-c of the vehicle and traffic law.
40 4. Moneys of the fund, when available, shall be paid out on the audit
41 and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the
42 commissioner of health or by an officer or employee of the department of
43 health designated by such commissioner.
44 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
