| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Mar 08, 2016 |
referred to environmental conservation |
Senate Bill S6934
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee
Actions
2015-S6934 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Environmental Conservation
- Law Section:
- Environmental Conservation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §3-0317, En Con L; amd §2401-b, Pub Health L; amd §5, Chap 77 of 2010
2015-S6934 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires the cancer incidence and environmental facility maps to be updated at least once every 5 years; directs the environmental public health tracking program technical advisory group to make recommendations relating thereto on a biennial basis; extends from March 31, 2016 to March 31, 2020, the expiration of the provisions of law providing for the cancer incidence and environmental facility maps.
2015-S6934 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6934
TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the environmental conservation law and the public
health law, in relation to the updating of cancer incidence and
environmental facility maps; and to amend chapter 77 of the laws of
2010 amending the environmental conservation law and the public health
law relating to an environmental facility and cancer incidence map, in
relation to extending the expiration date of the provisions thereof
PURPOSE :
To extend provisions requiring the creation and maintenance of cancer
incidence and environmental facility maps and to ensure such maps are
current.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :
Section one amends Environmental Conservation Law § 3-0317 to require
the Department of Environmental Conservation update data regarding
environmental facility locations not less than every five years.
Section two amends Public Health Law § 2401-b to require the technical
advisory group to make recommendations every two years regarding the
appropriate use and communication of cancer incidence and
2015-S6934 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
6934
I N S E N A T E
March 8, 2016
___________
Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the public health
law, in relation to the updating of cancer incidence and environmental
facility maps; and to amend chapter 77 of the laws of 2010 amending
the environmental conservation law and the public health law relating
to an environmental facility and cancer incidence map, in relation to
extending the expiration date of the provisions thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3-0317 of the environmental
conservation law, as added by chapter 77 of the laws of 2010, is amended
to read as follows:
2. The department shall, pursuant to established security protocols,
provide to the department of health the GPS coordinates, category of
license or permit, facility identification number, and address on
current environmental facilities that are necessary for the department
of health to develop and maintain cancer incidence and environmental
facility maps required pursuant to section twenty-four hundred one-b of
the public health law, and shall provide any technical assistance neces-
sary for the development of such maps. The department, in consultation
with the department of health, shall update such data [periodically] NOT
LESS THAN ONCE EVERY FIVE YEARS.
S 2. Subdivisions 3 and 9 of section 2401-b of the public health law,
as added by chapter 77 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as
follows:
3. The technical advisory group shall make recommendations BIENNIALLY
to the department on the appropriate use and communication of the cancer
incidence and environmental facility maps. Such recommendations shall
consider the scientific strengths and limitations of such mapping and
overlay methodologies for cancer tracking and geospatial linking to
significant disease risk factors, and the appropriate means for communi-
cating such strengths and limitation to the public in an easily discern-
ible manner. The department shall consider the recommendations of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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