S 3707: Directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the 5th congressional district and to prepare a remedial plan.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3707 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 29, 2025 ___________ 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: 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 fifth 4 congressional district in the city of New York. Such study shall include 5 an analysis of high risk neighborhoods examining disparities in: income, 6 race and ethnicity, public and private housing, proximity to major 7 sources of air pollution, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of 8 existing medical facilities. 9 § 2. Such study and remedial plan shall be completed within twelve 10 months of the effective date of this act and the results of such study 11 and the remedial plan shall be provided to the governor and the legis- 12 lature no later than eighteen months from the beginning of such study. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 14 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05343-01-5