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                                   1531
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, COMRIE, KRUEGER, PERSAUD, RIVERA --
   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 adult immunization
   reporting requirements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  3  of  section  2168  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 2014, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (b) (i) Any health care provider who  administers  any  vaccine  to  a
 person  nineteen  years  of  age or older, [may] SHALL report[, with the
 consent of the vaccinee,] all such immunizations to the department in  a
 format  prescribed  by the commissioner within fourteen days of adminis-
 tration of  such  immunizations.  Health  care  providers  administering
 immunizations  to  persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of
 New York [may] SHALL report[, with the consent of the  vaccinee,]  in  a
 format  prescribed  by  the  city of New York commissioner of health and
 mental hygiene, all such  immunizations  to  the  citywide  immunization
 registry.  THE  REPORTING BY A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OF ADMINISTRATION OF
 AN IMMUNIZATION TO A PERSON NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO A REGIONAL
 HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION OR  OTHER  HEALTH  INFORMATION  EXCHANGE
 SHALL SATISFY THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS IN THIS SECTION IF SUCH DATA IS
 PROVIDED  BY  THE  REGIONAL  HEALTH  INFORMATION  ORGANIZATION OR HEALTH
 INFORMATION EXCHANGE TO THE DEPARTMENT OR CITYWIDE  IMMUNIZATION  REGIS-
 TRY.
   (ii)  A registered professional nurse, or a pharmacist who administers
 a vaccine pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one
 of the education law, to a person nineteen years of age or older,  shall
 report[,  with  the  consent of the vaccinee,] all such immunizations to
 the department in a format prescribed by the commissioner  within  four-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 teen  days  of  administration of such immunizations. Registered profes-
 sional nurses or pharmacists  administering  immunizations  pursuant  to
 subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of the education law,
 to  persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York shall
 report[, with the consent of the vaccinee,] in a  format  prescribed  by
 the city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all such
 immunizations  to the citywide immunization registry. THE REPORTING BY A
 REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE OR A PHARMACIST OF  ADMINISTRATION  OF  AN
 IMMUNIZATION  TO  A  PERSON NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO A REGIONAL
 HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION OR  OTHER  HEALTH  INFORMATION  EXCHANGE
 SHALL SATISFY THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS IN THIS SECTION IF SUCH DATA IS
 PROVIDED  BY  THE  REGIONAL  HEALTH  INFORMATION  ORGANIZATION OR HEALTH
 INFORMATION EXCHANGE TO THE DEPARTMENT OR CITYWIDE  IMMUNIZATION  REGIS-
 TRY.
   (III)  HOWEVER,  NO  REPORT  SHALL BE MADE UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH IF THE
 PERSON TO WHOM THE VACCINE IS ADMINISTERED, OR A  PERSON  AUTHORIZED  TO
 CONSENT  TO HEALTH CARE FOR THE PERSON, OBJECTS TO THE PERSON WHO ADMIN-
 ISTERED THE VACCINE, PRIOR TO THE MAKING OF THE REPORT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.