Bill Text: NY S00601 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing a protocol with specific criteria regarding religious exemptions to immunizations in schools prior to an individual being able to submit a request for religious exemption to immunization form.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00601 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00601-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           601
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
          to establishing a specific protocol regarding religious exemptions  to
          immunizations in schools
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 2164 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
     3    10-a. The commissioner shall work in conjunction with the commissioner
     4  of  education  to  establish  a  protocol with specific criteria for all
     5  children described in subdivision nine of this section  to  qualify  for
     6  the  religious  vaccination  exemption.  Prior  to  an  individual being
     7  permitted to submit a request for religious  exemption  to  immunization
     8  form,  required  under  10  NYCRR  66-1.3(d),  such  individual  must be
     9  approved under such  established  protocol.    Such  protocol  shall  be
    10  created  and  put  into  effect prior to the two thousand seventeen--two
    11  thousand eighteen school year.
    12    § 2. Section 914 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    13  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    14    4. The commissioner shall work in conjunction with the commissioner of
    15  health  to  establish a protocol with specific criteria for all children
    16  described in subdivision nine of section twenty-one hundred  sixty  four
    17  of  the  public  health  law  to  qualify  for the religious vaccination
    18  exemption. Prior to an individual being permitted to  submit  a  request
    19  for  religious  exemption  to immunization form, required under 10 NYCRR
    20  66-1.3(d), such individual  must  be  approved  under  such  established
    21  protocol.    Such protocol shall be created and put into effect prior to
    22  the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school year.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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