Increases the penalty for the failure to comply with a notice and demand for the discontinuance of a paint condition conducive to lead poisoning from two thousand five hundred to five thousand dollars. /
Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify the result of an inspection of an entertainment food service establishment; directs such commissioner and local health officers to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system; requires reinspection of establishment receiving a grade of less than "A". /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify the result of an inspection of a mobile public food service establishment or pushcart in cities with a population of two million or more; directs such commissioner and local health officers to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system; requires reinspection of establishment receiving a grade of less than "A". /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Provides for annual school lead-copper tap water testing; requires the publishing of reports of contamination and abatement of such contamination; requires school districts to provide potable water to school children attending affected schools; exempts those schools built without use of lead piping and those schools where a finding of no contamination has been made for three consecutive years. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Requires cardiac screening of student athletes; mandates coaches receive training in CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Provides that hospital admission registration forms include the name of school attended by school-aged patients; provides a protocol for notification to parents. /
Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes the commissioner of health, within fiscal year 2013-2014, to contract with high bidders to perform pilot projects to assess the feasibility of reducing medically unnecessary high cost radiological procedures and generalizing cost savings to the state through enhanced medical management and prior review of orders for diagnostic imaging. /
Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: HEALTH

Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides for trichloroethylene (TCE) exposure prevention; directs the department of health to prescribe a maximum indoor air contaminant level for trichloroethylene, for such standard, the targeted risk of residual contamination shall be based on the most protective underlying assumptions and cancer potency factor and shall not exceed an excess cancer risk of one in one-million for carcinogenic end points and a hazard index of one for non-cancer end points, in order to minimize health risks associated to exposure to trichloroethylene. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes the department of health to establish a program for familial dysautonomia, Canavan's and Tay-Sachs disease screening and counseling and to provide grants and to enter into contracts with public and non-profit private entities to assist in such program; and provides that participation in such program shall be voluntary and all information shall be confidential. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: HEALTH

Requires the creation of a food allergy poster by the department of health; requires the posting of a food allergy poster in all food service establishments; authorizes the department to charge a fee to cover printing, postage and handling expenses of the posters. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: HEALTH

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 school of public health at Albany and Buffalo. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: HEALTH

Relates to approval of demonstration projects for the operation of proton beam therapy services. /
Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: HEALTH

Relates to membership of the advisory council established within the acquired immune deficiency syndrome institute; provides that vacancies shall be filled in the manner of the original appointments for the remainder of the term. /
Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: HEALTH

Requires facilities to perform pulse oximetry screening on newborns. /
Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: HEALTH

Provides for a corporate franchise tax check-off and a personal income tax check-off for taxpayer gifts for lung cancer education and prevention; establishes the lung cancer education and prevention fund; provides for such education and prevention programs by the department of health. /
Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: HEALTH

Requires a large-print version, or at the patient's request an audio recording of the discharge plan and preadmission information to be provided to all blind and visually impaired patients according to the preference of such patient or such patient's representative. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: HEALTH

Directs the commissioner of health to study and report on the very high incidence of asthma in the state. /
Sponsor: DILAN Committee: HEALTH

Provides that the requirement for restaurants to provide public toilet facilities shall be extended to all restaurants with a seating capacity of ten or more regardless of the date of commencement of operation as a restaurant, with the exception that New York city restaurants shall be "grandfathered" under previous requirements. /
Sponsor: DILAN Committee: HEALTH

Enacts the "reproductive health act"; provides a fundamental right to choose contraception and the right of a female to determine the course of a pregnancy; authorizes abortion prior to viability; defines terms; decriminalizes abortion. /
Sponsor: STEWART-COUSINS Committee: HEALTH