Bill Text: NY S07214 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires health care providers to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines and information relating to vaccine safety, including medical exemptions for school age children.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-28 - PRINT NUMBER 7214A [S07214 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07214-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7214--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. MARTINEZ, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
          tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health
          care practitioners to provide patients  with  a  list  of  ingredients
          contained in vaccines

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2166 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
     2  573 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  2166. Immunization; regulations; requirements.  1. The commissioner
     4  may promulgate regulations with respect to immunization conducted  by  a
     5  home  care  services  agency  licensed  pursuant  to  section thirty-six
     6  hundred five of this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six
     7  hundred eight of this chapter, facilities  or  institutions  established
     8  under  article  twenty-eight  of  this  chapter,  and  other health care
     9  providers and practitioners, including, but not  limited  to,  standards
    10  for  the  quality  of  care  and  services provided, consistent with the
    11  education law.
    12    2. Every health care  provider  who  administers  immunizations  shall
    13  provide the patient or a person in parental relation to the patient with
    14  a  list  of  ingredients  contained  in such vaccine, as provided by the
    15  manufacturer, at least five days in advance of  such  immunization.  The
    16  health care provider shall send the information to the patient via elec-
    17  tronic transmission or mail upon the appointment being set. In the event
    18  that  the  patient sets the appointment within five days of the appoint-
    19  ment date, the patient may be provided with the written information  the
    20  day  of  the  appointment.    Every health care provider who administers
    21  immunizations shall inform the recipient of the vaccine or the person in
    22  parental relation to the patient about vaccine safety, benefits,  poten-
    23  tial  adverse  effects,  information provided by the federal Centers for
    24  Disease Control regarding persons who should not be vaccinated and state
    25  law allowing medical exemptions from vaccinations for children attending
    26  school.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14447-04-0