Bill > A00755

This bill requires the New York State Department of Health to examine heat vulnerability and heat-related deaths, defining "heat-exacerbated death" as a death from natural causes where an existing health condition was worsened by extreme heat, "heat stress death" as a death directly attributed to heat or its effects as defined by the World Health Organization, and "heat vulnerability" as the estimated risk of these deaths in a geographic area based on social and environmental factors. The department must then issue an annual report, due by June 15, 2027, and every year thereafter, to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, and the governor, detailing the number of heat stress deaths, estimations of heat-exacerbated deaths, the heat vulnerability of each county, the social and environmental factors considered, the methods used for analysis, and the aggregate demographic information of decedents, ensuring no personally identifying information is included, and the report will also be posted on the department's website.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A755