Bill Text: NY A05747 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations concerning the incidence of asthma in the borough of Brooklyn in New York city.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - referred to health [A05747 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05747-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5747

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 20, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to create a temporary state commission to study and  make  recom-
          mendations concerning the incidence of asthma in the borough of Brook-
          lyn in New York city

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. A temporary state commission is hereby created to study and
     2  make recommendations relating to the incidence of asthma in the  borough
     3  of  Brooklyn  in  New  York city.   The commission will place particular
     4  emphasis on youth in communities with an unemployment rate exceeding one
     5  hundred twenty-five percent of the statewide level.
     6    § 2. The commission shall consist of eleven members to be appointed as
     7  follows: five shall be appointed by the governor; two shall be appointed
     8  by the temporary president of the senate and one by the minority  leader
     9  of the senate; and two shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly
    10  and  one  by  the  minority  leader  of the assembly. The members of the
    11  commission shall serve at  the  pleasure  of  the  official  making  the
    12  appointment  of such member. Of the five members appointed by the gover-
    13  nor, one shall be from the department of health and one  shall  be  from
    14  the department of environmental conservation. The remaining nine members
    15  of the commission must reside in a city with a population of one million
    16  or  more.  Vacancies in the membership of the commission shall be filled
    17  in the manner provided for  original  appointments.  Membership  on  the
    18  commission shall not constitute a public office. A chairperson and vice-
    19  chairperson  of  the  commission  shall  be elected by a majority of its
    20  members, all members being present.
    21    § 3. The members of the commission shall receive no  compensation  for
    22  their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
    23  incurred in the performance of their duties pursuant to this act.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09842-01-5
        A. 5747                             2

     1    §  4. The commission may meet within and without the state, shall hold
     2  at least one public hearing each quarter, and shall have all the  powers
     3  of a legislative committee pursuant to the legislative law.
     4    §  5.  The commission shall make a report of its findings and make any
     5  recommendations it may deem necessary and appropriate to  the  governor,
     6  the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly no
     7  later than one year after the effective date of this act.
     8    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.