Bill Text: NY A01336 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1336

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires immunization information systems to record data on the number of vaccine exemptions reported by each health care provider.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to health [A01336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01336-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1336

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DINOWITZ, REYES, TAYLOR, MAGNARELLI, HEVESI,
          GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  immuni-
          zation  information  systems  to  record data on the number of vaccine
          exemptions reported by each health care provider

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (f)  of  subdivision  5 of section 2168 of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 35 of  the  laws  of  2019,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (f)  The  immunization  status  of  children exempt from immunizations
     5  pursuant to subdivision eight of section twenty-one  hundred  sixty-four
     6  of  this  title  shall  be  reported by the health care provider.   Such
     7  reported information shall be entered into  the  statewide  immunization
     8  information  system  and  the New York city health department's citywide
     9  immunization registry by the  department  or,  as  appropriate,  by  the
    10  department  of  health and mental hygiene for the city of New York, in a
    11  manner that allows the commissioner and their designees  to  search  and
    12  access  the number of exemptions reported by each individual health care
    13  provider.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03195-01-5