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                                   1868
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
   of A. COOK, GLICK, PAULIN -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to research relating
   to the health effects of artificial night light

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (u), (v), (w), (x) and (y) of subdivision 1 of
 section 201 of the public health law, paragraph (u) as added by  chapter
 939  of  the  laws of 1976, paragraph (v) as added by chapter 474 of the
 laws of 1996, paragraph (w) as added by chapter 543 of the laws of 2019,
 paragraph (x) as added by section 2 of subpart S of part XX  of  chapter
 55  of  the laws of 2020 and paragraph (y) as added by chapter 95 of the
 laws of 2022, are amended and a new paragraph (z) is added  to  read  as
 follows:
   (u) engage in research into the causes of rocky mountain spotted fever
 and  the  prevention  thereof  and  develop  programs for the control of
 ticks, insects and anthropods which act as vectors of disease  affecting
 [man] HUMANS, within funds made available for such purposes[.];
   (v)  act as the single state agency for medical assistance pursuant to
 section three hundred sixty-three-a  of  the  social  services  law,  as
 amended  by  this chapter, with responsibility to supervise the plan for
 medical assistance as required by title XIX of the federal Social  Secu-
 rity act, or its successor, and to adopt regulations as may be necessary
 to implement this plan[.];
   (w)  make  available  to the council on children and families informa-
 tion, in a format identified by the  council,  regarding  home  visiting
 programs  that  meet  the  criteria  as required by section four hundred
 twenty-nine of the  social  services  law  regardless  of  whether  such
 program  has  a  contract  with  or receive funding from the state. Such
 information shall be provided in accordance with  the  requirements  set
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 forth  in  subdivision two of section four hundred eighty-three-h of the
 social services law. Such information shall be made  available  no  less
 than once a year[.];
   (x) produce an annual report analyzing the costs related to the sexual
 assault examination direct reimbursement program as created under subdi-
 vision  thirteen  of section six hundred thirty-one of the executive law
 and provide such report to the office of victim services  on  or  before
 September  first  of  each  year.  Such  report shall be provided to the
 governor, temporary president of the  senate  and  the  speaker  of  the
 assembly[.];
   (y)  To  develop  a  form  by  which a coroner, coroner's physician or
 medical examiner, pursuant to section six hundred seventy-seven  of  the
 county law, shall report to the division of veterans' services any death
 which  appears to be caused by suicide by a person who, to the knowledge
 of the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner, is  a  veteran.
 This  form  shall at a minimum: (i) ensure compliance with the strictest
 privacy protections and encourage data aggregation to the extent  feasi-
 ble;  (ii)  provide  the  address  to  which the form is to be mailed or
 submitted electronically; and (iii) include the county of residence  and
 the  branch  of  service of deceased veterans during the reporting peri-
 od[.]; AND
   (Z) ENGAGE IN AND/OR SUPPORT RESEARCH INTO THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF ARTI-
 FICIAL NIGHT LIGHT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO RESEARCH  ON  INDICATORS
 THAT  EXPOSURE  TO  LIGHT  AT NIGHT MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE INCREASED
 RISK OF DEVELOPING BREAST CANCER BY  SUPPRESSING  THE  NORMAL  NOCTURNAL
 PRODUCTION OF MELATONIN BY THE PINEAL GLAND, WITHIN FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE
 FOR  SUCH  PURPOSES  INCLUDING RESEARCH FUNDS FROM NON-STATE, PUBLIC AND
 PRIVATE SOURCES;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.