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Assembly Bill A6040

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to disseminating information regarding overweight and underweight children

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2013-A6040 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง207, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8363
2011-2012: A2951

2013-A6040 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to disseminating information regarding overweight and underweight children.

2013-A6040 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6040

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 13, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, JAFFEE, CASTRO, GIBSON, RIVERA, GOTTFRIED,
  GALEF  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GABRYSZAK, SWEENEY, TITUS --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  disseminating
  information regarding overweight and underweight children

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
  (I)  HEALTH  RISKS  TO  CHILDREN WHO BECOME OVERWEIGHT OR UNDERWEIGHT.
INFORMATION SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO PROVIDING CITATIONS  TO
THE  DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE, AS WELL AS OTHER APPROPRIATE WEBSITES PROVID-
ING CREDIBLE INFORMATION ON THE SUBJECT.
  S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09371-01-3

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