Bill > S05056

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 on a death certificate or due to excessive natural heat, and "heat vulnerability" as the estimated risk of these deaths in a geographic area based on social and environmental factors. The department must issue an annual report by June 15, 2027, and each year thereafter, detailing the number of heat stress deaths, estimations of heat-exacerbated deaths, the relative heat vulnerability of each New York county, social and environmental factors considered, the methods used for estimation, and aggregate demographic information of decedents, ensuring no personally identifying information is included, and this report will be posted on the department's website.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5056