Senate Bill S7598

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to school grade or age requirements for certain immunizations

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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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2015-S7598 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9403
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2164, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A750
2019-2020: A3710

2015-S7598 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to school grade or age requirements for certain immunizations.

2015-S7598 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7598 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7598

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 11, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  school  grade  or
  age requirements for certain immunizations

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

  Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 2164 of the  public
health law, as amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
read as follows:
  b.  Every person in parental relation to a child in this state born on
or after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-four  and  entering
[sixth]  SEVENTH  grade  or  a  comparable  age  level special education
program with an unassigned grade on or after September first, two  thou-
sand  [seven]  SIXTEEN,  shall have administered to such child a booster
immunization containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and an acellular
pertussis vaccine, which meets the  standards  approved  by  the  United
States  public health service for such biological products, and which is
approved by the department under such conditions as may be specified  by
the public health council.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14300-01-6

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