Assembly Bill A8679

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring immunization information systems to record data on the number of vaccine exemptions reported by each health care provider

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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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2019-A8679 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6771
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2168, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A2255, S1653
2023-2024: A1736, S3373

2019-A8679 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring immunization information systems to record data on the number of vaccine exemptions reported by each health care provider.

2019-A8679 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8679
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 23, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring immuni-
   zation information systems to record data on  the  number  of  vaccine
   exemptions reported by each health care provider

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision  5  of  section  2168  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended  by chapter 35 of the laws of 2019, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (f) The immunization status  of  children  exempt  from  immunizations
 pursuant  to  subdivision eight of section twenty-one hundred sixty-four
 of this title shall be reported by  the  health  care  provider.    SUCH
 REPORTED  INFORMATION  SHALL  BE ENTERED INTO THE STATEWIDE IMMUNIZATION
 INFORMATION SYSTEM AND THE NEW YORK CITY  HEALTH  DEPARTMENT'S  CITYWIDE
 IMMUNIZATION  REGISTRY  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  OR,  AS APPROPRIATE, BY THE
 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK,  IN  A
 MANNER  THAT  ALLOWS THE COMMISSIONER AND HIS OR HER DESIGNEES TO SEARCH
 AND ACCESS THE NUMBER OF EXEMPTIONS REPORTED BY EACH  INDIVIDUAL  HEALTH
 CARE PROVIDER.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD13597-02-9

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