New York S 5484: Establishes the office of wastewater surveillance and creates a grant program; appropriation

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S05484 Summary:

BILL NOS05484 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06370

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSR

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Add Art 11 Title V §§1180 - 1182, Pub Health L

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Establishes the office of wastewater surveillance; creates a grant program; provides such office shall monitor wastewater testing and analyze wastewater test results; provides the grant program shall assist labs in conducting wastewater testing; establishes an advisory council which shall provide advice on: best practices for wastewater sampling, testing and test results analysis; the creation of standards and systems of reporting on wastewater surveillance; the creation of a dashboard; integrate wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 into the office of wastewater surveillance; and any topics deemed essential by the commissioner of health.

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BILL NOS05484 

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02/21/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5484

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 21, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
 office of wastewater surveillance and creating a grant program; and
 making an appropriation therefor

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Article 11 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 2 new title V to read as follows:
 3 TITLE V
 4 WASTEWATER SURVEILLANCE
 5 Section 1180. Office of wastewater surveillance.
 6 1181. Grant program.
 7 1182. Advisory council.
 8 § 1180. Office of wastewater surveillance. 1. The commissioner in
 9 conjunction with the commissioner of environmental conservation shall
 10 establish an office within the department that shall monitor wastewater
 11 surveillance including the testing and analysis of wastewater for public
 12 health.
 13 2. The office shall partner and coordinate with:
 14 (a) labs established pursuant to this article that as of the effective
 15 date of this section, are engaged in COVID-19 wastewater testing, in
 16 order to expand testing to include other pathogens; and
 17 (b) the state university of New York and other institutions of higher
 18 learning that as of the effective date of this section, are engaged in
 19 wastewater surveillance.
 20 3. The office shall create a standardized system for labs to report
 21 wastewater test results and shall provide incentives for such labs to
 22 report accurate wastewater test results.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09685-01-5

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 1 4. The office shall create an online public-facing dashboard where
 2 data from wastewater surveillance are published and such dashboard shall
 3 comply with the health insurance portability and accountability act.
 4 5. (a) The office shall prepare and submit a report within one year of
 5 the effective date of this section and annually thereafter to the gover-
 6 nor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,
 7 minority leader of the senate, minority leader of the assembly, chair of
 8 the senate committee on health and the chair of the assembly health
 9 committee of its policy recommendations based on the results from waste-
 10 water surveillance.
 11 (b) In the event that wastewater surveillance shows an abnormally high
 12 level of pathogens which is indicative of a possible community wide
 13 infection of such pathogen, the office shall notify and make policy
 14 recommendations to the governor, the temporary president of the senate,
 15 the speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate, minority
 16 leader of the assembly, chair of the senate committee on health and the
 17 chair of the assembly health committee as soon as practicable.
 18 § 1181. Grant program. The commissioner shall establish and adminis-
 19 ter a grant program that shall assist labs established pursua