Bill Text: NY S08113 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits exemptions from immunization requirements by local governments and private entities to medical exemptions; repeals religious exemptions for certain post-secondary students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08113 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08113-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8113

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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  limiting
          exemptions  from  immunizations;  and  to repeal certain provisions of
          such law relating to religious exemptions for  certain  post-secondary
          students

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2164-a to read as follows:
     3    §  2164-a. Immunization exemptions. No organization or entity, includ-
     4  ing a local government,  school  board,  business,  or  employer,  which
     5  requires  immunization  against  any  disease shall permit any exemption
     6  from such requirement except a medical exemption.  Any  provision  of  a
     7  law, rule, regulation, or policy adopted by any entity that allows for a
     8  non-medical  exemption  to  an  immunization requirement shall be deemed
     9  null and void. A medical exemption shall  be  established  in  the  same
    10  manner  as  set forth in subdivision eight of section twenty-one hundred
    11  sixty-four of this title.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 9 of  section  2165  of  the  public  health  law  is
    13  REPEALED.
    14    §  3.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,
    15  section or part of this title shall be adjudged by any court  of  compe-
    16  tent  jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair
    17  or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its opera-
    18  tion to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,  section  or  part
    19  thereof  directly  involved  in  the  controversy in which such judgment
    20  shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared the intent of the legis-
    21  lature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such  invalid
    22  provisions had not been included herein.
    23    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01357-01-3