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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1165
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 9, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. SERRANO, ESPAILLAT, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KLEIN, SAVINO
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Local Government
 
        AN ACT to direct the New York state department of health  to  conduct  a
          study  on  the high incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx 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 borough of
     4  the Bronx in the city of New York. Such study shall include an  analysis
     5  of  high  risk  neighborhoods examining disparities in: income, race and
     6  ethnicity, public and private housing, proximity to major sources of air
     7  pollution, and an evaluation of the effectiveness  of  existing  medical
     8  facilities.
     9    §  2.  Such  study  and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve
    10  months of the effective date of this act.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law and the results of such study and the remedi-
    13  al plan shall be provided to the governor and the legislature  no  later
    14  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.
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