Bill Text: NY A06548 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "omnibus obesity and respiratory illness reduction act"; provides for the screening for childhood obesity by elementary and secondary schools and promotes the availability of certain healthy foods and beverages; provides for the regulation of the use of trans fats and requires the provision of nutritional information by food service facilities; requires instruction in schools on good health practices; includes certain respiratory diseases and obesity in disease management demonstration programs; enacts provisions to reduce the incidence of certain respiratory diseases; enacts provisions to prevent in-utero exposure to tobacco smoke; provides for the use of inhalers and nebulizers by certain students; provides for residential real property smoking policies; expands the collection and reporting of data on obesity in the state; directs the health research science board to study obesity and respiratory diseases; provides for expanded obesity prevention and screening; expands ease of breastfeeding in child day care centers and at work; establishes the obesity and respiratory disease research and education fund; relates to the use of school facilities by not-for-profit and charitable organizations for after school programs; includes weight management and physical fitness in wellness programs; requires day care centers to provide healthy foods and exercise; provides for a state office building bicycle parking and storage facilities expansion and inventory plan and creates a temporary bicycle commuting task force; authorizes school districts and institutions of higher education to donate excess food to local voluntary food assistance programs.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - print number 6548b [A06548 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06548-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6548--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 26, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CRESPO, PICHARDO, RIVERA, COOK, CROUCH, FINCH,
          RAIA, DILAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPINACCI --  read  once
          and  referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to regulating the use
          of artificial trans fats and requiring food service facilities to post
          or provide nutritional information on the food products  served  (Part
          A);  to  amend the public health law, in relation to in-utero exposure
          to tobacco smoke prevention (Part B); to amend the public health  law,
          in  relation  to  including  certain  respiratory diseases and obesity
          within disease management demonstration programs (Part  C);  to  amend
          the  public  health  law,  in  relation to the reduction of emphysema,
          chronic bronchitis and other chronic respiratory diseases in  children
          (Part  D);  to  amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to the
          collection and reporting of obesity data (Part E); to amend the public
          health law, in relation to directing the health research science board
          to study respiratory  diseases  and  obesity,  and  childhood  obesity
          prevention  and screening (Part F); to amend the public health law, in
          relation to breastfeeding of  infants  and  the  adolescent  pregnancy
          nutrition  counseling program (Part G); to amend the education law, in
          relation to the use of inhalers and nebulizers (Part H); to amend  the
          real  property law, in relation to residential rental property smoking
          policies (Part I); to amend the state  finance  law,  in  relation  to
          establishing  the  obesity and respiratory disease research and educa-
          tion fund (Part J); to amend the social services law, in  relation  to
          child  day  care  facilities  (Part K); to amend the education law, in
          relation to use of school facilities by not-for-profit and  charitable
          organizations  for after-school programs (Part L); to amend the educa-
          tion law, in relation to screening for childhood obesity and promotion
          of the availability of certain foods and beverages  in  schools  (Part
          M);  to  amend the public buildings law, in relation to bicycle access
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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