Bill Text: NY A00897 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health and the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study analyzing linkages between cancer and neurological diseases and contaminated environments.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A00897 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00897-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           897

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WOERNER, EPSTEIN, SAYEGH, WILLIAMS, GRIFFIN,
          GALEF, STECK, ZEBROWSKI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  DeSTEFANO,
          MONTESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to direct the department of health and the department of environ-
          mental  conservation  to  conduct  a  study analyzing linkages between
          cancer and neurological diseases and  contaminated  environments;  and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Public health study of linkages between cancer  and  neuro-
     2  logical  diseases  and environmental contamination. 1. The department of
     3  health, in cooperation with the department  of  environmental  conserva-
     4  tion, shall conduct a study of the potential linkages between cancer and
     5  neurological  diseases  including,  but not limited to, autism and amyo-
     6  trophic lateral sclerosis. Such study shall:
     7    a. review all available data related to instances of cancer and neuro-
     8  logical diseases;
     9    b. review all available data of  instances  of  environmental  contam-
    10  ination; and
    11    c.  identify any linkages between such data identified in paragraphs a
    12  and b of this subdivision.
    13    2. The department  of  health  and  the  department  of  environmental
    14  conservation  shall then prepare a report to the governor and the legis-
    15  lature which includes an  analysis  of  the  findings  of  any  linkages
    16  between  cancer and neurological diseases and contaminated environments.
    17  Such report shall be filed within one year of the effective date of this
    18  act, unless the commissioner of health requests in writing, an extension
    19  of time.
    20    3. For the purposes of  this  section,  "environmental  contamination"
    21  shall  mean  the introduction into water, air and/or soil of microorgan-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01182-01-1
        A. 897                              2

     1  isms, chemicals, toxic substances, wastes or waste water  in  a  concen-
     2  tration  that  makes  the  water, air and/or soil unfit for its intended
     3  use.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately; (a) provided, however,
     5  that this act shall continue in full force and effect for one year  from
     6  such  effective  date,  or until the department of health reports to the
     7  governor and the legislature as required by section  one  of  this  act,
     8  whichever  date is later, when upon such date the provisions of this act
     9  shall be deemed repealed; and
    10    (b) provided that the commissioner of health shall notify the legisla-
    11  tive bill drafting commission upon filing the report required in section
    12  one of this act in order that the commission may  maintain  an  accurate
    13  and  timely  effective data base of the official text of the laws of the
    14  state of New York in  furtherance  of  effectuating  the  provisions  of
    15  section  44  of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public offi-
    16  cers law.