STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5548 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 10, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to direct the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the fifth congressional district 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 fifth 4 congressional district in the city of New York. Such study shall include 5 an analysis of high risk neighborhoods examining disparities in: income, 6 race and ethnicity, public and private housing, proximity to major 7 sources of air pollution, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of 8 existing medical 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. LBD06759-01-1