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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.
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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