Bill Text: NY S02955 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires school districts to report to the department of education the number of students who request to be exempted from receiving certain immunizations, the number of students whose request to be exempted from receiving certain immunizations is granted and the number of students whose request to be exempted from receiving certain immunizations is denied.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02955 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02955-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2955
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  immunizations  for
          children
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 914 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. a. Each school district receiving  at  least  one  request  for  an
     4  exemption  from  vaccination,  pursuant  to  subdivision nine of section
     5  twenty-one hundred sixty-four of the public health law, must  report  to
     6  the  department,  by  June  thirtieth  of  the given year, the following
     7  information:
     8    (i) The number of students for which an exemption was requested.
     9    (ii) The number of students for which an exemption was granted.
    10    (iii) The number of students for which an exemption was denied.
    11    b. The department shall compile data reported pursuant to paragraph  a
    12  of  this  subdivision, and shall report such data to the legislature and
    13  the governor by December first of each year.
    14    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    15  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided howev-
    16  er, paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section 914 of the education law, as
    17  added  by section one of this act, shall take effect one year after such
    18  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08605-01-7
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