Assembly Bill A1736

2023-2024 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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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A1736 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3373
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2168, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8679, S6771
2021-2022: A2255, S1653

2023-A1736 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A1736 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1736
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DINOWITZ, REYES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee 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.
                                                            LBD00831-01-3

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