STATE OF NEW YORK
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8605
IN SENATE
June 18, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to giving schools
improved access to the statewide immunization database
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 8 of section 2168 of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 2014, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (c) health care providers and their designees, registered professional
5 nurses, [and] pharmacists authorized to administer immunizations pursu-
6 ant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of the educa-
7 tion law, and schools as defined in paragraph a of subdivision one of
8 section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this title shall have access to
9 the statewide immunization information system and the blood lead infor-
10 mation in such system only for purposes of submission of information
11 about vaccinations received by a specific registrant, determination of
12 the immunization status of a specific registrant, determination of the
13 blood lead testing status of a specific registrant, submission of the
14 results from a blood lead analysis of a sample obtained from a specific
15 registrant in accordance with paragraph (h) of subdivision two of this
16 section, review of practice coverage, generation of reminder notices,
17 quality improvement and accountability and printing a copy of the immun-
18 ization or lead testing record for the registrant's medical record, for
19 the registrant's parent or guardian, or other person in parental or
20 custodial relation to a child, or for a registrant upon reaching eigh-
21 teen years of age.
22 § 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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