Relates to directing the NY state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of Brooklyn in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7644
IN SENATE
February 2, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to direct the New York state department of health to conduct a
study on the high incidence of asthma and related pulmonary disorders
in the borough of Brooklyn 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 and related pulmo-
4 nary disorders in the borough of Brooklyn in the city of New York. Such
5 study shall include an analysis of high risk neighborhoods examining
6 disparities in: income, race and ethnicity, public and private housing,
7 proximity to major sources of air pollution, including, but not limited
8 to, highly trafficked roadways and solid waste processing facilities,
9 and an evaluation of the effectiveness of existing medical facilities.
10 § 2. Such study and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve
11 months of the effective date of this act.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
13 it shall have become a law and the results of such study and the remedi-
14 al plan shall be provided to the governor and the legislature no later
15 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.
LBD00791-01-7
