Bill Text: NY S01165 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes and directs 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-28 - VETOED MEMO.262 [S01165 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01165-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1165 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E 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 S 2. Such study and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve 10 months of the effective date of this act. 11 S 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. LBD04249-01-5