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Assembly Bill A5264

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes a study on the high incidence of asthma in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan; appropriation

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2017-A5264 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2967
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
New York City
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S8091

2017-A5264 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan; appropriates five million dollars.

2017-A5264 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5264
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- 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 city of New York  and  to
   prepare a remedial plan; and making an appropriation therefor

   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 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  adequacy  of  the health care systems' response to the asthma crisis
 and the effectiveness of existing medical facilities.
   § 2. Such study and remedial plan shall  be  completed  within  twelve
 months of the effective date of this act.
   §  3. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) is hereby appropri-
 ated to the department of audit and control out of  any  moneys  in  the
 state  treasury  in  the general fund to the credit of the department of
 health, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available,  for
 the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the provisions of this act. Such moneys
 shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers
 certified or approved by  the  commissioner  of  health  in  the  manner
 prescribed by law.
   § 4. 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.
                                                            LBD05108-01-7

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