§ 2401-a. Skin cancer reporting. The department shall submit a written
report every three years, commencing January first, two thousand
eighteen, to the governor and the legislature on the incidence of skin
cancer in the state of New York, by type and as a percentage of the
overall number of reported cases of all types of cancer, as well as the
associated causes of each type of skin cancer, if such causes are
readily ascertainable. Such report shall be generated based on data
gathered and reviewed pursuant to this title, and shall provide
information which is as current as practicable; provided, however, a
retrospective of the past ten years of information collected pursuant to
this title and predominant trends associated with such information, as
concerns skin cancer and its associated causes, shall be a component of
such report and each report submitted thereafter. At the discretion of
the commissioner, such reports may provide additional information other
than the information required by this section. The first report created
pursuant to this section shall be submitted one year after the effective
date of this section. The reports generated pursuant to this section
shall be made available to the public on the department's website.