Bill Text: NY A00908 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 908 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Exempts non-resident students at community colleges from certain immunization requirements.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-11 - enacting clause stricken [A00908 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00908-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        908--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. DESTITO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
         as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to exempting  non-re-
         sident  students  at  community colleges from the requirement of main-
         taining measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and meningococcal  meningitis
         records
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 2165 of the public health law is amended by  adding
    2  a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
    3    14. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO NON-RESIDENT STUDENTS AT COMMUNITY
    4  COLLEGES  AS  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIXTY-THREE HUNDRED
    5  ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
    6    S 2. Section 2167 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
    7  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    8    7.  THIS  SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO NONRESIDENT STUDENTS AT COMMUNITY
    9  COLLEGES AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF  SECTION  SIXTY-THREE  HUNDRED
   10  ONE OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
   11    S 3. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 2165 of the public health
   12  law,  as  amended by chapter 325 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
   13  as follows:
   14    b. The term "student" means any person born on or after January first,
   15  nineteen hundred fifty-seven, who is registered  to  attend  or  attends
   16  classes  at  an  institution, whether full-time or part-time. "Part-time
   17  student" shall mean a student who is enrolled for at least six but  less
   18  than  twelve  semester hours, or the equivalent per semester or at least
   19  four but less than eight semester hours per quarter at  an  institution.
   20  THE  FOREGOING  NOTWITHSTANDING,  THE TERM "STUDENT" SHALL NOT INCLUDE A
   21  GRADUATE OF A PUBLIC, PRIVATE OR  PAROCHIAL  SECONDARY  SCHOOL  THAT  IS
   22  LOCATED IN NEW YORK.
   23    S 4. 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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