Assembly Bill A7193

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from certain other agencies

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A7193 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8235
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §804, Pub Health L; add §3-0320, En Con L; add §888, Lab L; add §355-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A6824
2017-2018: A5450
2019-2020: A4097
2023-2024: A4878, S5073

2021-A7193 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from the departments of environmental conservation and labor; provides that the purpose is to gather various environmental data to correlate with disease data; requires the cooperation of the state university of New York schools of public health at Albany and Buffalo.

2021-A7193 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7193
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, THIELE, HUNTER, BRAUNSTEIN, COLTON,
   LUPARDO, L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF --  read
   once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, the environmental conservation
   law, the labor law and the education law, in relation to creating  the
   environmental health tracking system
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 804 to read as follows:
   § 804. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING SYSTEM.  1. THE LEGISLATURE FINDS
 AND DECLARES ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
   A.    THERE CURRENTLY EXIST SEVERAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATABASES
 MAINTAINED BY THE STATE. HOWEVER, THERE IS  LITTLE  OR  NO  COORDINATION
 BETWEEN  THE  USE AND ANALYSIS OF THESE DATA AS THEY PERTAIN TO ENVIRON-
 MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, OR ACCESSIBILITY OF THIS INFORMATION BY INTERESTED
 PARTIES AND RESEARCHERS.  IN ITS FIGHT AGAINST CHRONIC DISEASES, INCLUD-
 ING BIRTH DEFECTS, THAT ARE RELATED TO THE ENVIRONMENT, THE  STATE  MUST
 GIVE  COMMUNITIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS SOLID, RELIABLE INFOR-
 MATION, WHICH IS THE  MOST  BASIC  TOOL  WITH  WHICH  TO  UNDERTAKE  THE
 PREVENTION OF THESE DISEASES.
   B.  ANALYSIS  OF  AVAILABLE  DATA  USED  TO  TRACK AND MONITOR CHRONIC
 DISEASES IS CRITICAL TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING:
   (1) KNOWING WHERE AND HOW TO PUT IN PLACE THE MOST  EFFECTIVE  STRATE-
 GIES TO PREVENT DISEASES;
   (2)  ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF DISEASES TO DISABILITIES AND PREMA-
 TURE MORTALITY;
   (3) MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREVENTION STRATEGIES; AND
   (4) GENERATING HYPOTHESES THAT MAY LEAD TO  NEW  SCIENTIFIC  KNOWLEDGE
 ABOUT THE CAUSES OF, AND MOST EFFECTIVE WAYS TO FIGHT, CHRONIC DISEASES.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11078-01-1
              

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