2401-A - Reporting.
§ 2401-a. Reporting. 1. Annual report. The commissioner shall, submit an annual report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. The report shall include an evaluation of the cancer registry as it relates to timeliness, quality and completeness; an evaluation of the utility of the registry for scientific research; an evaluation of the access, timeliness and quality of reporting information to researchers and other similar individuals; an evaluation of the registry's data elements, including treatment, stage of disease, occupation and residence; an evaluation of the feasibility and utility of inclusion of occupational history and residence history; and an evaluation of integrating the registry with other data bases maintained by state agencies and departments, including the statewide planning and research cooperative system. 2. Quarterly report. The commissioner shall submit a quarterly report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. The quarterly report shall include an evaluation of whether the registry is achieving cancer registry goals established by a nationally recognized central cancer registry organization, including numerical goals concerning timeliness, quality and completeness. 3. Skin cancer reporting. The department shall annually submit a written report to the governor and the legislature on the incidence of skin cancer in the state of New York, by type and as a percentage of the overall number of reported cases of all types of cancer, as well as the associated causes of each type of skin cancer, if such causes are readily ascertainable. Such report shall be generated based on data gathered and reviewed pursuant to this title, and shall provide information which is as current as practicable; provided, however, a retrospective of the past ten years of information collected pursuant to this title and predominant trends associated with such information, as concerns skin cancer and its associated causes, shall be a component of such report and each report submitted thereafter. At the discretion of the commissioner, such reports may provide additional information other than the information required by this subdivision. The first report created pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted one year after the effective date of this subdivision. The reports generated pursuant to this subdivision shall be made available to the public on the department's website.