Bill Text: NY A09226 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 for children, incapacitated persons, or students or staff of employment institutions or day care facilities; prohibits requiring people to carry or present evidence of having received the COVID-19 vaccine.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-16 - referred to health [A09226 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09226-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9226

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to prohibiting a
          mandatory immunization against the novel coronavirus/COVID-19

          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  2184 to read as follows:
     3    § 2184. Novel coronavirus/COVID-19; immunization.  1. No  child  under
     4  the  age  of  eighteen shall be required to receive such vaccine against
     5  COVID-19 unless a person in a parental relation to such  child  requests
     6  and  consents  to  have  the  child  vaccinated. For the purpose of this
     7  subdivision the term "person in parental relation to a child" shall have
     8  the same meaning as set forth in section twenty-one  hundred  sixty-four
     9  of  this article.   Prior to administering the immunization every health
    10  care provider or  practitioner  shall  provide  a  list  of  ingredients
    11  contained in the vaccine as provided by the manufacturer  product insert
    12  and all potential side effects as indicated by industry studies.
    13    2. No incapacitated person shall be required to receive such immuniza-
    14  tion  against COVID-19 unless a person who is the legal guardian of such
    15  incapacitated person chooses to have the incapacitated person  vaccinat-
    16  ed.    For the purposes of this subdivision: (a) the term "incapacitated
    17  person" shall mean any person over the age of eighteen who is unable  to
    18  make  or  communicate decisions affecting their physical health, safety,
    19  or self-care; and  (b) the term "legal guardian" shall mean and  include
    20  any person who is over the age of eighteen and designated by an incapac-
    21  itated  person  prior  to  incapacitation  as  their legal guardian or a
    22  person legally appointed by a court as guardian  of  such  incapacitated
    23  person.
    24    3.  No  immunization against COVID-19 shall be required for attendance
    25  by students or employment of teachers and staff at any public or private
    26  educational institution or day care facility.
    27    4. No person shall be required to have, carry or present  evidence  of
    28  having received immunization against COVID-19.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08765-01-3