Bill Text: NY A00654 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes nurse practitioners to certify that an immunization may be detrimental to a child's health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - starred on calendar [A00654 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A00654-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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654
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BOYLAND, PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to who may certify
that an immunization may be detrimental to a child's health
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2164 of the public health law, as
2 added by chapter 994 of the laws of 1966 and as renumbered by chapter
3 633 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
4 8. If any LICENSED physician [licensed to practice medicine in this
5 state] OR NURSE PRACTITIONER certifies that such immunization may be
6 detrimental to a child's health, the requirements of this section shall
7 be inapplicable until such immunization is found no longer to be detri-
8 mental to the child's health.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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