Bill Text: NY S00117 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Encourages, through the provision of written educational materials and consultation, the voluntary vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) for school-aged children by their parents or guardians.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - PRINT NUMBER 117A [S00117 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00117-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         117--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to encouraging immun-
          ization against human papillomavirus (HPV)
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions 2, 5 and 6 of  section
     2  2164  of the public health law, as amended by chapter 401 of the laws of
     3  2015, are amended to read as follows:
     4    Definitions;  immunization  against  poliomyelitis,  mumps,   measles,
     5  diphtheria,  rubella, varicella, human papillomavirus (HPV), Haemophilus
     6  influenzae type  b  (Hib),  pertussis,  tetanus,  pneumococcal  disease,
     7  meningococcal disease, and hepatitis B.
     8    2. a. Every person in parental relation to a child in this state shall
     9  have administered to such child an adequate dose or doses of an immuniz-
    10  ing  agent  against  poliomyelitis, mumps, measles, diphtheria, rubella,
    11  varicella, Haemophilus influenzae  type  b  (Hib),  pertussis,  tetanus,
    12  pneumococcal  disease,  and  hepatitis  B,  which  meets  the  standards
    13  approved by the United States public health service for such  biological
    14  products,  and which is approved by the department under such conditions
    15  as may be specified by  the  public  health  council.  Every  person  in
    16  parental  relation to a child in this state shall be encouraged, through
    17  the provision of written educational materials and consultation, to have
    18  administered to such child an adequate dose or doses  of  an  immunizing
    19  agent  against  human  papillomavirus  (HPV)  which  meets the standards
    20  approved by the United States public health service for such  biological
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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