Bill Text: NY A09141 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a parent, guardian or person in a parental relation to a child under the age of eighteen to be physically present when any immunization is administered to such child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in health [A09141 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09141-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9141

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2022
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring a person
          in a parental relation to a child be  physically  present  during  any
          immunization

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2504 of the public health law,  as
     2  added by chapter 769 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  (a)  Any  person  who is eighteen years of age or older, or is the
     4  parent of a child  or  has  married,  may  give  effective  consent  for
     5  medical,  dental,  health  and hospital services for himself or herself,
     6  and the consent of no other person shall be necessary.
     7    (b) A parent, guardian or person in a parental  relation  to  a  child
     8  under the age of eighteen shall be physically present when any immuniza-
     9  tion is administered to such child.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13596-01-1