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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y
                              June 17, 2014
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sepulveda)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
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 the Bronx 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:
  Section 1. The commissioner of the New York state department of health
is hereby authorized and directed to prepare or have prepared a study of
and  a  remedial plan for the high incidence of asthma in the borough of
the Bronx in the city of New York. Such study shall include an  analysis
of  high  risk  neighborhoods examining disparities in: income, race and
ethnicity, public and private housing, proximity to major sources of air
pollution, and an evaluation of the effectiveness  of  existing  medical
facilities.
  S  2.  Such  study  and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve
months of the effective date of this act.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law and the results of such study and the remedi-
al plan shall be provided to the governor and the legislature  no  later
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.
                                                           LBD00468-01-3