Bill Text: NY A02670 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the incidences of asthma in cities having a population of more than ninety thousand and to prepare a report.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-08 - substituted by s646b [A02670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02670-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2670--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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
          more than ninety thousand

          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 more than
     4  ninety thousand inhabitants as determined by the last federal  decennial
     5  census.  Such study shall include an analysis of high risk neighborhoods
     6  examining disparities in: income, race and ethnicity, public and private
     7  housing, proximity to major sources of air pollution and  an  evaluation
     8  of  the  effectiveness of existing medical facilities in each city.  The
     9  study shall include recommendations for evidence-based interventions  to
    10  address the high burden of asthma in each city included in the study.
    11    §  2.  The  study  shall  be completed and posted on the department of
    12  health's website by September thirtieth, two thousand twenty-three.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04418-04-1