Bill Text: NY S05559 | 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 Manhattan in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2017-12-18 - VETOED MEMO.227 [S05559 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05559-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 5559                                                  A. 7214
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                     April 12, 2017
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        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. SEAWRIGHT, DE LA ROSA,  RODRIGUEZ,
          DICKENS,  QUART, FARRELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Cities
        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 Manhattan 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  Manhattan 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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