STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4648 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 23, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 incidences of asthma in cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more and to prepare a report 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 having a population of one 4 hundred thousand or more. The study and report shall include a map of 5 each city indicating each incident of asthma. 6 § 2. The study shall be completed by September thirtieth, two thousand 7 nineteen. 8 § 3. The report and an interactive map shall be completed and posted 9 on the department of health's website by January first, two thousand 10 twenty. 11 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01512-01-7