Senate Bill S8519

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain nursing students to administer certain vaccines

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • 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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2023-S8519 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10303
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6901, 6527 & 6909, add §6913, Ed L; amd §2168, Pub Health L

2023-S8519 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain nursing students to administer certain vaccines pursuant to patient specific orders or non-patient specific orders; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a patient specific order or non-patient specific order to a nursing student to administer certain vaccines.

2023-S8519 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8519 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8519
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
   to authorizing certain nursing students to administer certain vaccines
   pursuant to patient specific orders or non-patient specific orders and
   authorizing physicians and certified nurse practitioners to  prescribe
   and  order a patient specific order or non-patient specific order to a
   nursing student to administer certain vaccines
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  6901 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. "NURSING STUDENT" SHALL MEAN ANY PERSON EITHER RECEIVING AN  EDUCA-
 TION  IN NURSING OR WHO HAS COMPLETED AN EDUCATION IN NURSING WITHIN THE
 PRIOR YEAR, WHERE COMPLETING SUCH EDUCATION IN NURSING MAY  PERMIT  SUCH
 PERSON TO BE GRANTED LICENSURE UNDER THIS ARTICLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 APPLICABLE COMMISSIONER'S REGULATIONS.
   § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6913 to read
 as follows:
   §  6913.  VACCINATION BY NURSING STUDENTS. 1. ANY NURSING STUDENT MAY,
 PURSUANT TO A PATIENT SPECIFIC ORDER OR  A  NON-PATIENT  SPECIFIC  ORDER
 UNDER  SECTIONS  SIXTY-NINE  HUNDRED NINE AND SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-
 SEVEN OF THIS TITLE WHILE OVERSEEN OR  APPROVED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
 HEALTH OR LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND OPERATED UNDER THE MEDICAL SUPER-
 VISION  OF LICENSED PHYSICIANS, LICENSED PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, OR CERTI-
 FIED NURSE PRACTITIONERS: (A)  ADMINISTERING  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO  PREVENT
 INFLUENZA  TO  PATIENTS TWO YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; AND (B) ADMINISTERING
 IMMUNIZATIONS TO PREVENT PNEUMOCOCCAL, ACUTE HERPES ZOSTER, HEPATITIS A,
 HEPATITIS B, HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS, MEASLES, MUMPS,  RUBELLA,  VARICELLA,
 COVID-19,  MENINGOCOCCAL,  TETANUS,  DIPHTHERIA OR PERTUSSIS DISEASE AND
 MEDICATIONS REQUIRED FOR EMERGENCY TREATMENT OF ANAPHYLAXIS TO  PATIENTS
 EIGHTEEN  YEARS  OF  AGE OR OLDER; AND (C) ADMINISTERING OTHER IMMUNIZA-
 TIONS RECOMMENDED BY THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES OF
 THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND  PREVENTION  FOR  PATIENTS  EIGHTEEN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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