Authorizes the department of health and the department of environmental conservation to commission a study on the effects of long-term, low radiation emissions from cellular phone antennas on human beings, specifically on the physical and mental development of adolescents.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5328
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 15, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to direct the department of health and the department of environ-
mental conservation to commission a study on the effects of long-term,
low radiation emissions from cellular phone antennas on human beings,
specifically the physical and mental development of adolescents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Public health study of the effects of long-term, low radi-
2 ation emissions from cellular phone antennas. 1. The department of
3 health, in collaboration with the department of environmental conserva-
4 tion, shall immediately commission a study on the potential health risks
5 and effects of long-term, low-radiation emissions from cellular phone
6 towers, cellular phone antennas or base stations on human beings, with
7 particular attention to the potential health risks and adverse effects
8 on the mental and physical development of adolescents. The study shall
9 include a review of all available data relating to the increased volume
10 of cellular phone service carriers and of cellular phone towers, anten-
11 nas or base stations, and shall examine the potential health risks and
12 effects that such increases of cell phone service carriers and exposure
13 to cellular phone towers, cellular phone antennas and base stations may
14 have on human beings. In addition, the study shall examine the effects
15 of such cellular phone facilities located on or near school property and
16 day care centers.
17 2. The commissioner of health and the commissioner of environmental
18 conservation, or their designees, shall prepare and submit a report to
19 the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of
20 the assembly, which includes all data, research and studies conducted on
21 cellular phone service carriers, cellular phone towers and antennas, the
22 effects of long-term human exposure to low-radiation emissions from
23 cellular phone antennas, and more specifically, the potential health
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 risks to the mental and physical development of adolescents exposed to
2 such emissions. The report shall include such statutory and regulatory
3 proposals as the commissioners shall deem necessary to mitigate the
4 potential health risks. Such report shall be submitted on or before May
5 1, 2013.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
