Bill Text: NY S03941 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Grants schools access to a student's blood lead information in the statewide immunization information system in order to provide appropriate educational services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S03941 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03941-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3941--A
            Cal. No. 412
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favora-
          bly from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered
          to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
          in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to granting schools
          access to a student's blood lead test results in the statewide immuni-
          zation information system
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (d) of subdivision 8 of
     2  section 2168 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 154 of  the
     3  laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  schools  for  the  purpose  of  verifying immunization status for
     5  eligibility for admission and for the purpose of identifying  individual
     6  student  blood  lead information for the provision of appropriate educa-
     7  tional training on lead and the dangers of lead to the student  and  the
     8  parents  or  legal  guardians  of  the student as well as information on
     9  programs that are available to the student  and  the  parents  or  legal
    10  guardians of the student;
    11    § 2. 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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