Bill Text: NY A03250 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits certain pre-K programs from requiring the influenza vaccine for children entering such programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A03250 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03250-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3250

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          certain  pre-K programs from requiring the influenza vaccine for chil-
          dren entering such programs

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 2164 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person  in
     4  parental  relation to a child in this state entering or having entered a
     5  child care, head start, nursery, 3-K or pre-K program  or  a  comparable
     6  program  for children age six months through fifty-nine months, shall be
     7  required to have administered to  such  child  an  immunization  against
     8  influenza.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04905-01-1