STATE OF NEW YORK
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5550
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the spina bifida
education and outreach program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public
2 health law, as added by chapter 573 of the laws of 2008, is relettered
3 paragraph (g) and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows:
4 (h) Spina bifida, a permanently disabling birth defect occurring at
5 the end of the first month of pregnancy which involves the incomplete
6 development of the spinal cord or its coverings, and the importance of
7 encouraging all women in their child-bearing years to increase their
8 folic acid intake in order to reduce the incidence of spina bifida.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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