Bill Text: NY S03103 | 2017-2018 | 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 5-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2017-12-18 - VETOED MEMO.219 [S03103 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03103-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3103
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 19, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, AVELLA, BAILEY, KLEIN, SAVINO -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Local Government
        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    § 2. Such study and remedial plan shall  be  completed  within  twelve
    10  months of the effective date of this act.
    11    § 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.
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