Bill Text: NY S08605 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Gives schools improved access to the statewide immunization database.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-11 - PRINT NUMBER 8605A [S08605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08605-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8605--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 18, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        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.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (d) of subdivision 8 of
     2  section 2168 of the public health law, as amended by section 7  of  part
     3  MM of chapter 57 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  schools  for  the  purpose  of  verifying immunization status for
     5  eligibility for admission, for the purpose of confirming a  student  has
     6  been  screened  for  lead  when  enrolling  in child care, pre-school or
     7  kindergarten, and for the provision of appropriate educational materials
     8  developed by the department pursuant to section thirteen hundred  seven-
     9  ty-a  of  this  chapter  on the dangers of lead exposure, and the health
    10  risks associated with elevated blood lead levels to the parents or legal
    11  guardians of the student with an elevated blood lead level, as such term
    12  is defined in subdivision six of section  thirteen  hundred  seventy  of
    13  this  chapter,  as well as information on programs that may be available
    14  to the student and the  parents  or  legal  guardians  of  the  student,
    15  provided  that,  for  every school that has applied for and been granted
    16  access to identifiable registrant information pursuant to this  subdivi-
    17  sion,  the department shall make available the capability to batch down-
    18  load sets of immunization records of only  those  children  under  their
    19  administrative responsibility;
    20    § 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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