Bill Text: NY A00453 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 18-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to health [A00453 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00453-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          453
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. GIBSON, J. RIVERA, ORTIZ, CASTRO, MENG, DINOWITZ,
         ARROYO  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of A. BRENNAN, CRESPO, GALEF,
         HEASTIE, JEFFRIES, MAYERSOHN -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
         tee on Health
       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.
                                                                  LBD00176-01-1