Bill Text: NY S07320 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the definition of administration with respect to immunization to prevent COVID-19 for children between the ages of two and eighteen years of age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S07320 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07320-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7320

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 9, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  the  definition  of
          "administration"  with respect to immunization to prevent COVID-19 for
          children between the ages of two and eighteen years of age

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 22 of section 6802 of the educa-
     2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 110 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    b. the direct application of an immunizing agent to  children  between
     5  the  ages of two and eighteen years of age, whether by injection, inges-
     6  tion, inhalation or any other means,  pursuant  to  a  patient  specific
     7  order  or non-patient specific regimen prescribed or ordered by a physi-
     8  cian or certified nurse practitioner, who has a  practice  site  in  the
     9  county  or  adjoining  county in which the immunization is administered,
    10  for immunization to prevent influenza [and],  medications  required  for
    11  emergency treatment of anaphylaxis resulting from such immunization, and
    12  for  immunization  to  prevent COVID-19 for children between the ages of
    13  two and eighteen years of age, as authorized by the United  States  food
    14  and  drug  administration  or  recommended  by the advisory committee on
    15  immunization  practices  of  the  centers  for   disease   control   and
    16  prevention.  If  the  commissioner of health determines that there is an
    17  outbreak of influenza, or that  there  is  the  imminent  threat  of  an
    18  outbreak  of influenza, then the commissioner of health may issue a non-
    19  patient specific regimen applicable statewide.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
    21  ments  to paragraph b of subdivision 22 of section 6802 of the education
    22  law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration  and
    23  repeal  of  such  subdivision  and  shall be deemed expired and repealed
    24  therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11867-01-1
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