Governor Hochul has signed into law, as Chapter 535 of the Laws of 2024, A.8365-A (Woerner) / S.8348-A (Brouk) -- a bill that calls for the New York State Department of Health to include oral health in its Health Care and Wellness Education and Outreach Program created under Section 207 of the New York State Public Health Law.  You can read the bill signed into law below (new language is underlined; deleted language is bracketed and struck through).  The law takes effect on January 21, 2025.

STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8365--A
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
 
IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    December 13, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, ANGELINO, MAGNARELLI, GUNTHER,
          GRAY,  DeSTEFANO, LUPARDO, PAULIN, LUNSFORD, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, JONES,
          BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  SIMON,  WALSH  --
          read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
          the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          campaign to promote public awareness of the causes of oral disease and
          its prevention
 
          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 207 of the public health  law  is
  2    amended by adding a new paragraph (s) to read as follows:
  3      (s) The importance of good oral health, including but not limited to,
  4    the impact of oral disease, causes of oral disease and  its  prevention,
  5    oral health across the lifespan, the total body connection, the value of
  6    early detection  and  the  availability  of oral health services in the
  7    community.
  8      § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
  9    have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 10    repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 11    this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 12    on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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