Assembly Bill A9381

Signed By Governor
2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires general hospitals treating newborns to offer parents, persons in parental relation and caregivers Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough) vaccinations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A9381 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6500
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2805-h, Pub Health L

2011-A9381 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires general hospitals treating newborns to offer parents, persons in parental relation and caregivers Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough) vaccinations.

2011-A9381 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9381

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 24, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  general
  hospitals  with  a  newborn nursery or providing obstetric services to
  offer Bordetella pertussis vaccinations to certain persons

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  The subdivision heading and paragraph (a) of subdivision 3
of  section  2805-h of the public health law, as added by chapter 282 of
the laws of 2009, are amended to read as follows:
  Immunizations against influenza  AND  BORDETELLA  PERTUSSIS;  neonatal
intensive  care  units.  (a) [Annually between September first and April
first, it] IT shall be the duty of each  general  hospital  (I)  with  a
neonatal  intensive care unit to offer, ANNUALLY BETWEEN SEPTEMBER FIRST
AND APRIL FIRST, to every parent or person in parental relation  who  is
reasonably  anticipated  to be a caregiver in the household of a newborn
being treated in the neonatal intensive care  unit  vaccination  against
influenza  virus; AND (II) HAVING A NEWBORN NURSERY OR PROVIDING OBSTET-
RIC SERVICES TO OFFER TO EVERY PARENT, PERSON IN  PARENTAL  RELATION  OR
OTHER  PERSON  WHO  IS  REASONABLY  ANTICIPATED  TO  BE A CAREGIVER OF A
NEWBORN BEING TREATED IN SUCH HOSPITAL  VACCINATION  AGAINST  BORDETELLA
PERTUSSIS  (WHOOPING  COUGH).    If  the  parent  or  person in parental
relation wishes to be vaccinated, the hospital shall provide the  person
with  the  vaccination.  If  the  parent  or person in parental relation
declines the hospital offer or wishes to defer vaccination, the hospital
shall provide information on where such person may be  vaccinated.  Such
general  hospital  need not offer the vaccination to parents and persons
in parental relation who have already received such vaccine or for  whom
it is medically inappropriate.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13855-03-2

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