Bill Text: NY A03710 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to school grade or age requirements for certain immunizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A03710 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03710-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3710 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to school grade or age requirements for certain immunizations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 2164 of the public 2 health law, as amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 b. Every person in parental relation to a child in this state born on 5 or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-four and entering 6 [sixth] seventh grade or a comparable age level special education 7 program with an unassigned grade on or after September first, two thou- 8 sand [seven] nineteen, shall have administered to such child a booster 9 immunization containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and an acellular 10 pertussis vaccine, which meets the standards approved by the United 11 States public health service for such biological products, and which is 12 approved by the department under such conditions as may be specified by 13 the public health council. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01101-01-9