Bill Text: NY S01668 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-11 - PRINT NUMBER 1668A [S01668 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01668-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1668--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KLEIN, ADDABBO, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, HANNON, HASSELL-THOMPSON, PARKER, SAVINO, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 obesity 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 education law, in relation to the use of inhalers and nebulizers (Part G); to amend the real property law, in relation to residential rental property smoking policies (Part H); to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the obesity and respiratory disease research and educa- tion fund (Part I); to amend the social services law, in relation to child day care facilities (Part J); to amend the education law, in relation to use of school facilities by not-for-profit and charitable organizations for after-school programs (Part K); 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 L); to amend the education law, in relation to instruction in good health and reducing the incidence of obesity (Part M); to amend the public buildings law, in relation to bicycle access to public office buildings (Part N); to amend the agriculture and markets law and the education law, in relation to authorizing school districts and insti- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03888-07-6
