Bill Text: NY A09886 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the eligibility of admitted persons age 50 or older in general hospitals to receive immunizations against influenza virus.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-11-22 - signed chap.492 [A09886 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09886-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9886

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to increasing  eligi-
          bility  of  admitted  persons  in  general hospitals for immunizations
          against influenza virus

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 2805-h of the public health law,
     2  as added by chapter 266 of the laws of 2006 and the subdivision  heading
     3  as  amended  by  chapter 282 of the laws of 2009,  is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    2. Immunizations against influenza for certain persons fifty or  older
     6  and immunizations against pneumococcal for certain persons sixty-five or
     7  older. (a) Annually between September first and April first, it shall be
     8  the duty of the administrative officer or other person in charge of each
     9  general hospital to offer each admitted person age [sixty-five] fifty or
    10  older  vaccination  against influenza virus. Such officer or person need
    11  not offer the vaccination to persons  who  have  already  received  such
    12  vaccine or for whom it is otherwise inappropriate.
    13    (b) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other person
    14  in  charge of each general hospital to offer vaccination against pneumo-
    15  coccal disease to each admitted person age sixty-five or  older  in  the
    16  hospital's  care.  Such officer or person need not offer the vaccination
    17  to people who have already received it, are not in need of a booster, or
    18  for whom it is otherwise inappropriate.
    19    (c) Each general hospital shall adopt an  influenza  and  pneumococcal
    20  immunization  policy  which  shall  include,  but not be limited to, the
    21  following: procedures for identifying persons age  fifty  or  older  for
    22  influenza,  sixty-five  or  older  for  pneumococcal  disease and at the
    23  discretion of the facility other individuals at risk; procedures for the
    24  offering of immunization  against  influenza  virus  upon  admission  or
    25  discharge  to  persons  age  fifty or older, between September first and
    26  April first, and pneumococcal disease upon  admission  or  discharge  to
    27  persons  age  sixty-five or older; procedures for ensuring that individ-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15217-01-4
        A. 9886                             2

     1  uals offered immunization or their guardian receive information  regard-
     2  ing  the  risks  and  benefits  of  vaccination; a standing order policy
     3  approved by the medical director or other  appropriate  physician  which
     4  shall  include,  but not be limited to, an assessment for contra-indica-
     5  tions; and a system  for  documenting  vaccine  administration,  medical
     6  contra-indications,  patient  refusals  and any post-vaccination adverse
     7  events.
     8    (d) The commissioner may waive the requirements  of  this  subdivision
     9  due to a shortage of influenza and/or pneumococcal vaccine.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.