Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Feb 16, 2021 |
signed chap.46 |
Feb 12, 2021 |
delivered to governor |
Feb 01, 2021 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading cal.45 substituted for a988 |
Feb 01, 2021 |
substituted by s879 |
Jan 21, 2021 |
advanced to third reading cal.45 |
Jan 20, 2021 |
reported |
Jan 06, 2021 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A988
Signed By Governor2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SOLAGES
Archive: Last Bill Status Via S879 - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Charles Barron
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Jenifer Rajkumar
2021-A988 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S879
- Law Section:
- Public Health
- Laws Affected:
- Rpld §2500-l, Pub Health L (as proposed in S.6662 & A.6987-A)
2021-A988 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 988 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to require the department of health of the state of New York to conduct a study of the effects of racial and ethnic disparities on infant mortality and prepare and submit a report to the governor and the legislature; and to repeal section 2500-l of the public health law relating thereto THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 2500-l of the public health law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the public health law relating to requiring the department of health of the state of New York to conduct a study of the effects of racial and ethnic disparities on infant mortal- ity and prepare and submit a report to the governor and the legislature, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.6662 and A.6987-A, is REPEALED. § 2. Study of the effects of racial and ethnic disparities on infant mortality. 1. The department of health shall conduct a study on the effects of racial and ethnic disparities on infant mortality. The purpose of the study shall be to: (a) identify statewide and regional infant death rates, trends, patterns, and racial and ethnic disparities in adverse birth outcomes; and (b) provided that the department shall use its best efforts, identify medical, non-medical, and system-related factors that may have contrib- uted to infant deaths and treatment disparities to the extent practica- ble; and (c) review the extent to which racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality in a geographic area indicate the need to increase access to health care services in that area; and EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07168-01-1
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