Bill Text: NY S08245 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the department of health to conduct a study on the health impacts of COVID-19 on minorities in New York state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-06-14 - SIGNED CHAP.99 [S08245 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S08245-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8245--A IN SENATE April 27, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, HOYLMAN, METZGER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to require the department of health to conduct a study on the health impacts of COVID-19 on minorities in New York state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. 1. The department of health shall conduct a study on the 2 differential health impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 3 racial and ethnic minorities in New York state. The purpose of the study 4 shall be to: 5 (a) identify COVID-19 statewide and regional rates of infection, 6 hospitalization, recovery and mortality and any racial and ethnic 7 disparities in such rates, and the potential medical, environmental, and 8 system-related factors that may have contributed to such disparities; 9 (b) review the extent to which racial and ethnic disparities in 10 COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, recovery and mortality rates in a 11 geographic area indicate the need to increase access to health care 12 services and availability of disparity mitigation and prevention strate- 13 gies in that area; and 14 (c) identify ways to reduce or eliminate racial and ethnic disparities 15 that contributed to such disparities in COVID-19 infection, hospitaliza- 16 tion, recovery and mortality rates. 17 2. Within one year after the effective date of this act, the depart- 18 ment of health shall prepare and submit to the governor, the temporary 19 president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead- 20 er of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly a report 21 containing the study's findings concerning the rates of COVID-19 22 infection, hospitalization, recovery and mortality and any racial and 23 ethnic disparities in such rates and recommendations for legislative or 24 other actions that can be undertaken to reduce or eliminate racial and 25 ethnic disparities and increase access to health care services and 26 disparity mitigation and prevention strategies in the state. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16172-05-0