Bill Text: NY A02426 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to make sunscreen available at the entrance to all state parks, recreational facilities, historic sites or programs and other appropriate locations at the discretion of such commissioner; defines term as any topical sunscreen product approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter use for the purpose of avoiding overexposure to the sun and not for medical treatment of any injury or illness.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A02426 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02426-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2426

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation  to requiring sunscreen be made available at all state parks,
          recreational facilities, historic sites or programs and  other  appro-
          priate locations

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 21 of section 3.09 of the parks, recreation and
     2  historic preservation law, as added by chapter 338 of the laws of  2005,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    21.  (a)  Develop,  in  consultation  with the commissioner of health,
     5  informational signs and brochures alerting patrons  of  the  dangers  of
     6  overexposure  to the sun and its relationship to skin cancer. The infor-
     7  mation on such signs and in such  brochures  shall  include  methods  by
     8  which  an individual may help prevent exposure to the sun and lessen his
     9  or her risk of contracting skin cancer.  Such  signs  and  informational
    10  brochures  shall be placed in appropriate locations at the discretion of
    11  the commissioner.
    12    (b) Make sunscreen available at  the  entrance  to  all  state  parks,
    13  recreational  facilities, historic sites or programs and other appropri-
    14  ate locations at the discretion of the commissioner. For the purposes of
    15  this subdivision, the term "sunscreen" shall mean any topical  sunscreen
    16  product  approved  by the federal Food and Drug Administration for over-
    17  the-counter use for the purpose of avoiding overexposure to the sun  and
    18  not for medical treatment of an injury or illness.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    21  ly,  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations
    22  necessary for the implementation of the foregoing provisions of this act
    23  on its effective date  are  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and
    24  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07173-01-3