Bill Text: NY A08365 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a campaign to promote public awareness of the importance of good oral health, including but not limited to, the impact of oral disease, causes of oral disease and its prevention, oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection, the value of early detection and the availability of oral health services in the community.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-4)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A08365 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08365-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8365--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, ANGELINO, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER,
          GRAY,  DeSTEFANO, LUPARDO, PAULIN, LUNSFORD, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, JONES,
          BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  SIMON,  WALSH  --
          read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
          the Committee on Health 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  establishing  a
          campaign to promote public awareness of the causes of oral disease and
          its prevention

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (s) to read as follows:
     3    (s)  The importance of good oral health, including but not limited to,
     4  the impact of oral disease, causes of oral disease and  its  prevention,
     5  oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection, the value of
     6  early  detection  and  the  availability  of oral health services in the
     7  community.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
     9  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    10  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    11  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    12  on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13641-02-4