S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
February 25, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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 fifth congressional
district 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 fifth
congressional district 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.
§ 2. Such study and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve
months of the effective date of this act.
§ 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.
LBD06243-02-0