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                                    453
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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.