Bill Text: NY S02726 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires children enrolled in an overnight, children's non-regulated, summer day, or travelling camp to be vaccinated against a specified list of diseases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02726 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02726-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2726

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring children
          enrolled in an overnight, children's  non-regulated,  summer  day,  or
          travelling camp to be vaccinated

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

     1    Section 1. Section 1392 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a.  "Children's non-regulated camp" shall mean a property consisting
     4  of a tract of land and any tents, vehicles, buildings  or  other  struc-
     5  tures  that  may be pertinent to its use, any part of which may be occu-
     6  pied on a scheduled basis by persons under sixteen years  of  age  under
     7  general supervision for the purpose of indoor or outdoor organized group
     8  activities,  involving  passive  and nonpassive recreational activities,
     9  which are not subject to the provisions of this article.
    10    § 2. Section 1394 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
    11  subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
    12    6-a.  Each children's overnight, children's non-regulated, summer day,
    13  and travelling summer day camp shall ensure that every child enrolled at
    14  such camp has been administered an adequate dose or doses of an immuniz-
    15  ing agent against poliomyelitis, mumps,  measles,  diphtheria,  rubella,
    16  varicella,  Haemophilus  influenzae  type  b  (Hib), pertussis, tetanus,
    17  pneumococcal  disease,  and  hepatitis  B,  which  meets  the  standards
    18  approved  by the United States public health service for such biological
    19  products, and which is approved by the department under such  conditions
    20  as  may be specified by the public health council. If any health practi-
    21  tioner, as defined in section  twenty-one  hundred  sixty-four  of  this
    22  chapter,  certifies  that  such  immunization  may  be  detrimental to a
    23  child's health, the requirements of this subdivision shall be inapplica-
    24  ble until such immunization is found no longer to be detrimental to such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01192-01-3
        S. 2726                             2

     1  child's health. The commissioner shall promulgate such rules  and  regu-
     2  lations as shall be necessary to implement the provisions of this subdi-
     3  vision.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2023.