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NY S 5484

in committee

Establishes the office of wastewater surveillance and creates a grant program; appropriation

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Establishes the office of wastewater surveillance; creates a grant program; provides such office shall monitor wastewater testing and analyze wastewater test results; provides the grant program shall assist labs in conducting wastewater testing; establishes an advisory council which shall provide advice on: best practices for wastewater sampling, testing and test results analysis; the creation of standards and systems of reporting on wastewater surveillance; the creation of a dashboard; integrate wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 into the office of wastewater surveillance; and any topics deemed essential by the commissioner of health.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO FINANCE
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Leroy Comrieprimary

Committees

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Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-21

    REFERRED TO FINANCE

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO FINANCE

    referral-committee

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Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S5484?summary=&detail=

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