File #: Int 1399-2025    Version: * Name: Access to blood glucose test strips.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 9/25/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to access to blood glucose test strips
Sponsors: Keith Powers , Lynn C. Schulman, Mercedes Narcisse
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to make blood glucose test strips available at no cost to the public in 5 high-need areas, defined as areas of the city determined by DOHMH to warrant the distribution of blood glucose test strips based on relevant factors of access to blood glucose test strips, including social determinants of health, rates of diabetes, and rates of health insurance. DOHMH shall post the list of locations providing blood glucose test strips at no cost on its website.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1399, 2. Int. No. 1399, 3. September 25, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-25-25.pdf

Int. No. 1399

 

By Council Members Powers, Schulman and Narcisse

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to access to blood glucose test strips

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-188.3 to read as follows:

§ 17-188.3 Blood glucose test strips. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “high-need area” means an area of the city determined by the department to warrant the distribution of blood glucose test strips based on relevant factors of access to blood glucose test strips, including social determinants of health, rates of diabetes, and rates of health insurance coverage.

b. The department shall make blood glucose test strips available at no cost to the public in 5 high-need areas. The department shall post the list of locations providing blood glucose test strips at no cost on its website in plain language and in the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

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