STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6177 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 26, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the frequency of submission of community health assessment reporting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 602-a of the public health law, as 2 added by section 17 of part E of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. Every municipality shall submit to the department [no more 5 frequently than every two years,] a community health assessment in 6 alignment with the state health improvement plan cycle and no more 7 frequently than every six years. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10165-01-5