Bill Text: NY S07253 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to adult immunization registry; makes registered professional nurses and pharmacists authorized to administer immunizations "authorized users"; requires reporting of consent of the vaccinee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-10-21 - SIGNED CHAP.420 [S07253 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S07253-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
May 7, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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
registry
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 and subdivision 3 of section
2 2168 of the public health law, subdivision 3 as amended by section 7 of
3 part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2
4 and paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 154 of the laws
5 of 2013, are amended to read as follows:
6 (a) The term "authorized user" shall mean any person or entity author-
7 ized to provide information to or to receive information from the state-
8 wide immunization information system and shall include health care
9 providers and their designees, as defined in paragraph (d) of this
10 subdivision, schools as defined in paragraph a of subdivision one of
11 section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this title, colleges as defined
12 in section two of the education law, professional and technical schools
13 as referred to in the definition of higher education in section two of
14 the education law, children's overnight camps and summer day camps as
15 defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter, third
16 party payer as defined in paragraph (f) of this subdivision, local
17 health districts as defined by paragraph (c) of subdivision one of
18 section two of this chapter, local social services districts and the
19 office of children and family services with regard to children in their
20 legal custody, [and] WIC programs as defined in paragraph (g) of this
21 subdivision, REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSES, AND PHARMACISTS AUTHORIZED
22 TO ADMINISTER IMMUNIZATIONS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION
23 SIXTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW. An authorized user may be
24 located outside New York state. An entity other than a local health
25 district shall be an authorized user only with respect to a person seek-
26 ing or receiving a health care service from the health care provider, a
27 person enrolled or seeking to be enrolled in the school, a person
28 insured by the third party payer, a person in the custody of the local
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 social services district or the office of children and family services,
2 or a person seeking or receiving services through WIC programs, as the
3 case may be.
4 3. (a) Any health care provider who administers any vaccine to a
5 person less than nineteen years of age or, on or after September first,
6 two thousand nine, conducts a blood lead analysis of a sample obtained
7 from a person under eighteen years of age in accordance with paragraph
8 (h) of subdivision two of this section; and immunizations received by a
9 person less than nineteen years of age in the past if not already
10 reported, shall report all such immunizations and the results of any
11 blood lead analysis to the department in a format prescribed by the
12 commissioner within fourteen days of administration of such immuniza-
13 tions or of obtaining the results of any such blood lead analysis.
14 Health care providers administering immunizations to persons less than
15 nineteen years of age in the city of New York shall report, in a format
16 prescribed by the city of New York commissioner of health and mental
17 hygiene, all such immunizations to the citywide immunization registry.
18 [The commissioner, and for the city of New York the commissioner of
19 health and mental hygiene, shall have the discretion to accept for
20 inclusion in the system information regarding immunizations administered
21 to individuals nineteen years of age or older with the consent of the
22 vaccinee.] Health care providers who conduct a blood lead analysis on a
23 person under eighteen years of age and who report the results of such
24 analysis to the city of New York commissioner of health and mental
25 hygiene pursuant to New York city reporting requirements shall be exempt
26 from this requirement for reporting blood lead analysis results to the
27 state commissioner of health; provided, however, blood lead analysis
28 data collected from physician office laboratories by the commissioner of
29 health and mental hygiene of the city of New York pursuant to the health
30 code of the city of New York shall be provided to the department in a
31 format prescribed by the commissioner.
32 (b) (I) ANY HEALTH CARE PROVIDER WHO ADMINISTERS ANY VACCINE TO A
33 PERSON NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, MAY REPORT, WITH THE ORAL CONSENT
34 OF THE VACCINEE, ALL SUCH IMMUNIZATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT IN A FORMAT
35 PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER WITHIN FOURTEEN DAYS OF ADMINISTRATION OF
36 SUCH IMMUNIZATIONS. HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS TO
37 PERSONS NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK MAY
38 REPORT, WITH THE ORAL CONSENT OF THE VACCINEE, IN A FORMAT PRESCRIBED BY
39 THE CITY OF NEW YORK COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, ALL SUCH
40 IMMUNIZATIONS TO THE CITYWIDE IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY.
41 (II) A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE, OR A PHARMACIST WHO ADMINISTERS
42 A VACCINE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIXTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE
43 OF THE EDUCATION LAW, TO A PERSON NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, SHALL
44 REPORT, WITH THE ORAL CONSENT OF THE VACCINEE, ALL SUCH IMMUNIZATIONS TO
45 THE DEPARTMENT IN A FORMAT PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER WITHIN FOUR-
46 TEEN DAYS OF ADMINISTRATION OF SUCH IMMUNIZATIONS. REGISTERED PROFES-
47 SIONAL NURSES OR PHARMACISTS ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS PURSUANT TO
48 SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIXTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW,
49 TO PERSONS NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK SHALL
50 REPORT, WITH THE ORAL CONSENT OF THE VACCINEE, IN A FORMAT PRESCRIBED BY
51 THE CITY OF NEW YORK COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, ALL SUCH
52 IMMUNIZATIONS TO THE CITYWIDE IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY.
53 (C) The statewide immunization information system shall provide a
54 method for health care providers to determine when the registrant is due
55 or late for a recommended immunization and shall serve as a means for
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1 authorized users to receive prompt and accurate information, as reported
2 to the system, about the vaccines that the registrant has received.
3 S 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 8 of section 2168 of the public
4 health law, as amended by section 7 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws
5 of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
6 (c) health care providers and their designees, REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL
7 NURSES, AND PHARMACISTS AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER IMMUNIZATIONS PURSUANT
8 TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIXTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE EDUCATION
9 LAW shall have access to the statewide immunization information system
10 and the blood lead information in such system only for purposes of
11 submission of information about vaccinations received by a specific
12 registrant, determination of the immunization status of a specific
13 registrant, determination of the blood lead testing status of a specific
14 registrant, submission of the results from a blood lead analysis of a
15 sample obtained from a specific registrant in accordance with paragraph
16 (h) of subdivision two of this section, review of practice coverage,
17 generation of reminder notices, quality improvement and accountability
18 and printing a copy of the immunization or lead testing record for the
19 registrant's medical record, for the registrant's parent or guardian, or
20 other person in parental or custodial relation to a child, or for a
21 registrant upon reaching eighteen years of age.
22 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
