New York S 7171: 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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S07171 Summary:

BILL NOS07171 

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SPONSORCLEARE

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Add §804, Pub Health L; add §3-0320, En Con L; add §888, Lab L; add §355-f, Ed L

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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.

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BILL NOS07171 

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04/03/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7171

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 3, 2025
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 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:

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 804 to read as follows:
 3 § 804. Environmental health tracking system. 1. The legislature finds
 4 and declares all of the following:
 5 a. There currently exist several health and environmental databases
 6 maintained by the state. However, there is little or no coordination
 7 between the use and analysis of these data as they pertain to environ-
 8 mental health issues, or accessibility of this information by interested
 9 parties and researchers. In its fight against chronic diseases, includ-
 10 ing birth defects, that are related to the environment, the state must
 11 give communities and public health professionals solid, reliable infor-
 12 mation, which is the most basic tool with which to undertake the
 13 prevention of these diseases.
 14 b. Analysis of available data used to track and monitor chronic
 15 diseases is critical to all of the following:
 16 (1) knowing where and how to put in place the most effective strate-
 17 gies to prevent diseases;
 18 (2) assessing the contribution of diseases to disabilities and prema-
 19 ture mortality;
 20 (3) measuring the effectiveness of prevention strategies; and
 21 (4) generating hypotheses that may lead to new scientific knowledge
 22 about the causes of, and most effective ways to fight, chronic diseases.
 23 c. State government agencies, universities and their consultants are
 24 the appropriate and necessary institutions to examine whether or not,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03743-01-5

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 1 and, if so, the extent to which, past environmental exposures might
 2 increase the risk of chronic diseases, including, but not limited to,
 3 birth defects, diabetes, heart disease, thyroid disease, reproductive
 4 disorders, cancer, asthma and other respiratory conditions, Parkinson's
 5 disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other neurologically degenerative
 6 diseases.
 7 d. The initial investment to establish the environmental health track-
 8 ing system, including an analysis infrastructure to develop preventive
 9 strategies, would constitute a small fraction of the annual costs of
 10 controlling chronic diseases in the state.
 11 e. It is the intent of the legislature in creating the environmental
 12 health tracking system to form a public-private partnership to create an
 13 environmental health and tracking system to do all of the following:
 14 (1) provide a continually updated database, with linkages to biomoni-
 15 toring information, information about exposures to other environmental
 16 agents, disease type data and other data collected pursuant to this
 17 section, as well as linkages to databases of the U.S. centers for
 18 disease control including those in its natural environmental public
 19 hea