Senate Bill S8235

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-S8235 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7193
Current Committee:
Senate 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: S5073, A4878

2021-S8235 (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-S8235 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S8235 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8235
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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.
   C. STATE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR  CONSULTANTS  ARE
 THE  APPROPRIATE  AND  NECESSARY INSTITUTIONS TO EXAMINE WHETHER OR NOT,
 AND, IF SO, THE EXTENT TO  WHICH,  PAST  ENVIRONMENTAL  EXPOSURES  MIGHT
 INCREASE  THE  RISK  OF CHRONIC DISEASES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
 BIRTH DEFECTS, DIABETES, HEART DISEASE,  THYROID  DISEASE,  REPRODUCTIVE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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