Bill Text: NY A02670 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the incidences of asthma in cities having a population of more than ninety thousand and to prepare a report.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-08 - substituted by s646b [A02670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02670-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2670--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee --  again  reported  from
          said  committee  with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to direct the New York state department of health  to  conduct  a
          study  on  the incidences of asthma in cities and towns having a popu-
          lation of more than ninety thousand

          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  the  incidences of asthma in all cities and towns having a population of
     4  more than ninety thousand inhabitants as determined by the last  federal
     5  decennial  census.  Such  study  shall  include an analysis of high risk
     6  neighborhoods examining disparities  in:  income,  race  and  ethnicity,
     7  public and private  housing, proximity to major sources of air pollution
     8  and an evaluation of the effectiveness of existing medical facilities in
     9  each  city.   The study shall include recommendations for evidence-based
    10  interventions to address the high burden of asthma in each city and town
    11  included in the study.
    12    § 2. The study shall be completed and  posted  on  the  department  of
    13  health's website by September thirtieth, two thousand twenty-three.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04418-06-1