Bill Text: NY S07573 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the use of a standardized immunization exemption form.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-28 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07573 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07573-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7573

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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  a  standardized
          form for medical exemption from required immunizations

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2164 of the public health law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  401  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    8. If any  physician,  nurse  practitioner  or  physician's  assistant
     5  licensed  to  practice  medicine in this state [certifies] completes the
     6  required exemption form stating that such  immunization  may  be  detri-
     7  mental  to  a  child's health, the requirements of this section shall be
     8  inapplicable until such immunization is found no  longer  to  be  detri-
     9  mental to the child's health by the child's physician, nurse practition-
    10  er  or physician's assistant.  The department or any other state agency,
    11  board or commission may not require any other condition  or  requirement
    12  for  the medical exemption to immunization or immunizations provided for
    13  in this section for school admission.
    14    § 2. Subdivision 8-a of section 2164  of  the  public  health  law  is
    15  renumbered subdivision 8-b and a new subdivision 8-a is added to read as
    16  follows:
    17    8-a.  Any  physician,  nurse practitioner or physician's assistant who
    18  believes that such immunization may be detrimental to the child's health
    19  must complete the following form and file it with the child's school:
    20  Medical Exemption Form
    21    (a) Name(s) of parent, parents or guardian:
    22    (b) Name of child:
    23    (c) Child's birthdate:
    24    (d) Child's home address:
    25    (e) I hereby certify that immunization against (poliomyelitis,  mumps,
    26  measles,  diptheria,  rubella,  varicella, Haemophilus influenzae type b
    27  (Hib), pertussis, tetanus, pneumococcal disease, influenza,  meningococ-
    28  cal  disease  and hepatitis B) may be detrimental to the child's health.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 7573                             2

     1  This certification, once provided to the child's school, shall serve  as
     2  an exemption to section 2164 of the public health law.
     3    (signature of physician, nurse practitioner or physician's assistant)
     4    (date)
     5    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.