STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1716--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BROUK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD04795-02-5