STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 5559 A. 7214 2017-2018 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY April 12, 2017 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. SEAWRIGHT, DE LA ROSA, RODRIGUEZ, DICKENS, QUART, FARRELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to direct the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of Manhattan 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: 1 Section 1. The commissioner of the New York state department of health 2 is hereby authorized and directed to prepare or have prepared a study of 3 and a remedial plan for the high incidence of asthma in the borough of 4 Manhattan in the city of New York. Such study shall include an analysis 5 of high risk neighborhoods examining disparities in: income, race and 6 ethnicity, public and private housing, proximity to major sources of air 7 pollution, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of existing medical 8 facilities. 9 § 2. Such study and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve 10 months of the effective date of this act. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 12 it shall have become a law and the results of such study and the remedi- 13 al plan shall be provided to the governor and the legislature no later 14 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. LBD09809-01-7