Bill Text: NY A01092 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical technician to administer certain vaccines; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-4)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01092 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01092-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1092 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, LUPARDO, GALLAHAN, OTIS, BUTTENSCHON, FAHY, MILLER, SANTABARBARA, KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGELINO, J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing emer- gency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director; to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical techni- cian to administer certain vaccines; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 3005-c to read as follows: 3 § 3005-c. Vaccination by emergency medical technicians. 1. Emergency 4 medical technicians may, pursuant to a non-patient specific order under 5 sections sixty-nine hundred nine and sixty-five hundred twenty-seven of 6 the education law and under the authority of an emergency medical 7 services director while overseen or approved by the department of health 8 or local health departments and operated under the medical supervision 9 of licensed physicians, licensed physician assistants, or certified 10 nurse practitioners administer immunizations to prevent influenza to 11 persons two years of age or older, and administer immunizations to 12 prevent COVID-19 to persons eighteen years of age or older, provided 13 that such individuals first receive training in the following areas, as 14 determined by the commissioner after consultation with the commissioner 15 of education: 16 (a) techniques, indications, precautions, contraindications, infection 17 control practices; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02607-02-3A. 1092 2 1 (b) use of personal protective equipment sufficient to provide the 2 basic level of competence for such tasks; and 3 (c) a current certificate in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 4 which at a minimum must include a certification in basic cardiopulmonary 5 resuscitation by an online program that has received accreditation from 6 the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the Accreditation Council for 7 Pharmacy Education (ACPE), or the Accreditation Council for Continuing 8 Medical Education. 9 2. When an emergency medical technician administers an immunization to 10 prevent influenza or COVID-19, they shall: 11 (a) report such administration to the department of health either 12 through the statewide immunization information system or the citywide 13 immunization registry under section twenty-one hundred sixty-eight of 14 this chapter; and 15 (b) prior to administering the immunization, inform the patient or, 16 where applicable, the person legally responsible for the patient, on the 17 importance of having a primary health care practitioner. 18 § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 19 2168 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 20 2014, is amended and a new subparagraph (iii) is added to read as 21 follows: 22 (ii) A registered professional nurse, or a pharmacist who administers 23 a vaccine pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one 24 of the education law, or an emergency medical technician who administers 25 an immunization to prevent influenza or COVID-19 under section three 26 thousand five-c of this chapter, to a person nineteen years of age or 27 older, shall report, with the consent of the vaccinee, all such immuni- 28 zations to the department in a format prescribed by the commissioner 29 within fourteen days of administration of such immunizations. Registered 30 professional nurses or pharmacists administering immunizations pursuant 31 to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of the education 32 law, to persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York 33 shall report, with the consent of the vaccinee, in a format prescribed 34 by the city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all 35 such immunizations to the citywide immunization registry. 36 (iii) An emergency medical technician who administers an immunization 37 under section three thousand five-c of this chapter, to a person less 38 than nineteen years of age, shall report all immunizations to the 39 department in a format prescribed by the commissioner within fourteen 40 days of administration of the immunizations. Emergency medical techni- 41 cians administering such immunizations to persons less than nineteen 42 years of age in the city of New York shall report, in a format 43 prescribed by the city of New York commissioner of health and mental 44 hygiene, all immunizations to the citywide immunization registry. 45 § 3. Section 6527 of the education law is amended by adding a new 46 subdivision 7-b to read as follows: 47 7-b. A licensed physician may prescribe and order a non-patient 48 specific order to an emergency medical technician pursuant to regu- 49 lations made by the commissioner, and consistent with the public health 50 law, for: 51 (a) administering immunizations to prevent influenza to persons two 52 years of age or older; and 53 (b) administering immunizations to prevent COVID-19 to persons eigh- 54 teen years of age or older. 55 § 4. Section 6909 of the education law is amended by adding a new 56 subdivision 11 to read as follows:A. 1092 3 1 11. A certified nurse practitioner may prescribe and order a non-pa- 2 tient specific order to an emergency medical technician pursuant to 3 regulations made by the commissioner, and consistent with the public 4 health law, for: 5 (a) administering immunizations to prevent influenza to persons two 6 years of age or older; and 7 (b) administering immunizations to prevent COVID-19 to persons eigh- 8 teen years of age or older. 9 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 10 deemed repealed June 1, 2025.