Authorizes and directs the department of health to study potential health hazards from exposure to radio frequency energy emitted from cellular telephone towers and facilities.

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S1523-2013 Actions

• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO HEALTH

S1523-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S1523

TITLE  OF  BILL:   An act in relation to authorizing and directing the
department of health to study potential health hazards  from  exposure
to  radio  frequency energy emitted from cellular telephone towers and
facilities

PURPOSE: This legislation authorizes and directs the  New  York  State
Department  of  Health to study potential health hazards from exposure
to radio frequency energy emitted from cellular telephone towers.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Requires the  Department  of  Health  to  study
potential  health  hazards  from  exposure  to  radio frequency energy
emitted from cellular telephone towers. The Department is required  to
report  within one year from the effective date of this legislation to
the  Governor  and  Legislature   its'   findings,   conclusions   and
legislative proposals.

JUSTIFICATION:   The   towers   needed   to   facilitate   cell  phone
communication have caused a great deal of concern. There are  numerous
stories  detailing  the  potential negative effects of exposure to the
electromagnetic radiation produced by cellular towers and  facilities.
To  date,  the New York Department of Health has not performed a study
on the possible long and short term effects of radio frequency energy.

This legislation charges the Department to  perform  a  study  of  the
effects  and  report  back to the Legislature and the Governor on its'
findings, conclusions and legislative proposals

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: S.954 of 2011/12 (Senate Health Committee).

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.

S1523-2013 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    1523

                         2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 9, 2013
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
    when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

  AN ACT in relation to authorizing and directing the department of health
    to study potential health hazards from  exposure  to  radio  frequency
    energy emitted from cellular telephone towers and facilities

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. The department of health shall study, examine, evaluate and
  make recommendations concerning potential health hazards resulting  from
  exposure  to radio frequency energy emitted by cellular telephone towers
  and facilities. Such department shall report the  findings,  conclusions
  and recommendations of such study to the governor and the legislature on
  or  before  one  year  after  the  effective date of this act, and shall
  submit with its report such legislative proposals as it deems  necessary
  to implement its recommendations.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD03277-01-3