Bill Text: NY A09310 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Bans the use of vaccines containing genetically modified organisms.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-08 - referred to health [A09310 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09310-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 8, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to banning the use of
         vaccines containing genetically modified organisms
         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  2113 to read as follows:
    3    S  2113.  IMMUNIZATIONS; PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF VACCINES CONTAINING
    4  GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS. 1. NO PERSON SHALL BE VACCINATED WITH  A
    5  VACCINE THAT CONTAINS GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS.
    6    2.  "GENETICALLY  MODIFIED  ORGANISM" SHALL MEAN: (A) AN ORGANISM THAT
    7  HAS BEEN ALTERED AT THE MOLECULAR OR CELLULAR LEVEL BY  MEANS  THAT  ARE
    8  NOT  POSSIBLE  UNDER NATURAL CONDITIONS OR PROCESSES, INCLUDING RECOMBI-
    9  NANT DNA AND RNA TECHNIQUES, CELL FUSION,  MICROENCAPSULATION,  MACROEN-
   10  CAPSULATION, GENE DELETION AND DOUBLING, INTRODUCTION OF A FOREIGN GENE,
   11  AND  A  PROCESS  THAT CHANGES THE POSITIONS OF GENES, OTHER THAN A MEANS
   12  CONSISTING EXCLUSIVELY OF BREEDING, CONJUGATION, FERMENTATION,  HYBRIDI-
   13  ZATION,  IN  VITRO FERTILIZATION, OR TISSUE CULTURE; AND (B) AN ORGANISM
   14  MADE THROUGH SEXUAL OR  ASEXUAL  REPRODUCTION,  OR  BOTH,  INVOLVING  AN
   15  ORGANISM  DESCRIBED  IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, IF POSSESSING
   16  ANY OF THE ALTERED MOLECULAR OR CELLULAR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORGANISM
   17  SO DESCRIBED.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13135-01-3