Enacts comprehensive provisions to curtail the incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases; requires teachers in public and non-public school systems to be trained in identifying and responding to asthma emergencies in accordance with standards to be prescribed by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of health; provides for a program of asthma disease management and control within the department of health; program shall provide various services to health care providers, patients, and others; authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants; provides for a study of asthma incidence and prevalence; provides for an annual report on the program; establishes an advisory panel; requires health care providers to provide pregnant women with information on in-utero exposure to tobacco smoke; requires residential leases to include information on the smoking restrictions for the leased premises and in common ares; prohibits idling of motor vehicle engines upon school grounds; authorizes school boards to allow certain students to use inhalers or nebulizers; requires the school that authorizes the use of an inhaler to prepare an emergency action plan for the student; ensures safety of all students who suffer from respiratory illnesses in New York; requires reporting of cases of asthma; provides for the curtailing of the use of chemicals which may trigger asthma episodes; provides for the use of the least toxic pesticides which effectively eradicate the targeted organism; includes certain respiratory diseases within the disease management demonstration program; provides for the reduction of emphysema, chronic bronchitis and other chronic respiratory diseases in children; relates to smoking restrictions in certain outdoor areas. /
Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: HEALTH

Enacts the "public university emergency contraception act"; requires every college and university of the state university of New York and the city university of New York to provide emergency contraception to any student requesting it; requires the widespread provision of information at such colleges and universities on the safety and availability of emergency contraception on campus; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a statewide emergency contraception college education and awareness program, and requires such commissioner to develop informational materials relating to emergency contraception. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: HEALTH

Requires written notification to parents of infant's whose DNA or blood spots are retained. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage. /
Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: HEALTH

Mandates the installation of warning labels on ultraviolet radiation devices; provides that such warning shall include the risk of irreversible damage to the user's eyes and skin, including skin cancer. /
Sponsor: Molinaro Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits smoking in outdoor areas of ticketing, boarding, or platform areas of railroad stations operated by the metropolitan transportation authority or its subsidiaries. /
Sponsor: Jaffee Committee: HEALTH

Makes provisions for the protection of indoor air quality including the requirement that building owners develop and maintain an indoor environmental plan and undertake other responsibilities relating thereto including investigating complaints and providing a written response thereto; directs department of health, in consultation with specified others, to adopt standards of ventilation for new and existing buildings and to develop model courses in the operation and maintenance of heating ventilation and air conditioning systems. /
Sponsor: Lupardo Committee: HEALTH

Appropriates $350,000 to the Schenectady Health Care Practitioner Volunteer program. /
Sponsor: Tedisco Committee: HEALTH

Establishes the nurse loan repayment program; authorizes the commissioner to award loan repayment awards to nurses serving in underserved areas or nursing homes. /
Sponsor: Gunther Committee: HEALTH

Provides Medicaid reimbursement for interpretation services provided by hospital inpatient, outpatient and emergency department settings and in diagnostic treatment centers; provides further that time frames for notice, approval or certification of rates of payment and to the requirement of prior notice of rates of payment are suspended, deemed without any force and effect from and after February 1, 2012 for such rates effective for the period April 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Relates to the fee charged for the issuance of the birth and death records in the city of Amsterdam. /
Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: HEALTH

Relates to medicaid management; authorizes the commissioner of health and the department of health to report to the legislature and for the department to develop outcome results-based objectives for medicaid service and administrative contracts to promote efficiency and prevent waste and abuse. /
Sponsor: RANZENHOFER Committee: HEALTH

Enacts Bill of Adoptee Rights clarifying language and procedures for obtaining birth certificates and medical histories of adoptees; permits an adopted adult to access certain records when they reach the age of 18; creates a contact preference to be filed by birth parents. /
Sponsor: Weprin Committee: HEALTH

Directs a study of the incidence of autism spectrum disorders in New York and an evaluation of state and local programs for persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. /
Sponsor: FLANAGAN Committee: HEALTH

Enacts the New York state pharmaceutical drug manufacturer and wholesaler disclosure act; requires pharmaceutical drug manufacturers and wholesalers to annually report to the New York department of health, for disclosure to the general public, all of its gifts to health care practitioners that prescribe drugs when such gifts have a value of seventy-five dollars or more; authorizes the commissioner of health to impose penalties and promulgate necessary rules and regulations. /
Sponsor: Burling Committee: HEALTH

Provides that there shall be no prior authorization required under the preferred drug program for all medications indicated by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of asthma. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: HEALTH

Sets nutrition standards for restaurants distributing incentive items aimed at children. /
Sponsor: RIVERA Committee: HEALTH

Extends provisions relating to the residential care off-site facility demonstration project. /
Sponsor: Morelle Committee: HEALTH

Requires health plans providing coverage for out-of-network care to provide certain information to insureds, subscribers and enrollees. /
Sponsor: Gottfried Committee: HEALTH

Regulates the scope, manner and performance of review of claims by utilization review agents; provides that denial of coverage for emergency services is not based solely on final diagnosis. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH