NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7922

Senate Bill S7922

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs the study of the health and environmental impact of the implementation of 5G and future generation wireless network system technology and small cell distributed antenna systems in the state

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2019-S7922 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A10157
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Health
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: A2657

2019-S7922 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the study of the health and environmental impact of the implementation of 5G and future generation wireless network system technology and small cell distributed antenna systems in the state.

2019-S7922 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7922

SPONSOR: KAPLAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to directing the study of the health and environ-
mental impacts of the implementation of 5G and future generation wire-
less network system technology and small cell distributed antenna
systems in the state

 
PURPOSE:

This bill would create a study conducted by the Department of Health,
Department of Environmental Conservation, with the Office of Information
Technology Services to evaluate the health and environmental impacts of
fifth generation (5G) and future generation wireless systems technology
and small cell distributed antenna systems in the state.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

§ 1- Requires a study by the Department of Health, Department of Envi-

ronmental Conservation, with the Office of Information Technology
Services to evaluate the health and environmental impacts of 5G and
future generation wireless systems technology and small cell distributed
antenna systems in the state.

§ 2- Establishes the study completion date and report deadline of no
later than one year after the effective date.

§ 3- Establishes that an expert in environmental medicine and an expert
in public health or environmental medicine will be consulted in order to
evaluate the data of the study.

§ 4- Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Due to it being a new form of technology, there is currently a lack of
understanding of how a 5G network and small cell distributed antenna
systems would effect both the individuals that use it, the people
exposed to it, and the environment that it surrounds. Since this tech-
nology would use electromagnetic fields and could emit radiation, this
bill proposes that a study be undertaken to ascertain the health and
environmental impacts of this technology.

Specifically now, with climate change already altering the environment
and the health and safety concerns included within that, it is an imper-
ative time to fully recognize the factors which could possibly further
alter the environment.

This legislation, which is patterned after chapter 653 of the laws of
2019, seeks to expand what various topics the state is researching as it
pertains to 5G.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Minimal.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S7922 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7922
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT in relation to directing the study of  the  health  and  environ-
   mental impacts of the implementation of 5G and future generation wire-
   less  network  system  technology  and  small cell distributed antenna
   systems in the state

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  department  of health and the department of environ-
 mental conservation, in cooperation with the office of information tech-
 nology services, shall jointly study and evaluate the health  and  envi-
 ronmental  impacts  of  the  implementation of fifth generation (5G) and
 future generation wireless systems technology and small cell distributed
 antenna systems in the state.
   § 2. No later than one year after the effective date of this act, such
 departments shall jointly submit to the governor and the  legislature  a
 report  on the health and environmental impacts of the implementation of
 5G technology and future  generation  wireless  systems  technology  and
 small  cell  distributed antenna systems, as described in section one of
 this act.
   § 3. Such departments shall evaluate such data with the assistance  of
 experts including, but not limited to:
   a.  an expert in environmental medicine who is knowledgeable about the
 health effects of electromagnetic fields; and
   b. an expert in public health or environmental medicine with expertise
 in the biological effects of radio frequency microwave radiation.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15639-02-0

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