Bill Text: NY S01570 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits any child who is at least fourteen years of age to have administered to themself, regardless of parental consent, certain immunizations required or recommended by law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01570 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01570-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1570

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. KRUEGER, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MYRIE, SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the administration
          of vaccines to children who are at least fourteen years of age

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2167-a to read as follows:
     3    § 2167-a. Administering a vaccine to a minor; consent. 1.    A  health
     4  care  practitioner  may  administer a vaccine to a minor who is at least
     5  fourteen years of age if the minor  has  the  capacity  to  consent  and
     6  provides informed consent to the administering of the vaccine.
     7    2.  Prior  to administering any vaccine under this section, the health
     8  care practitioner shall consult with and counsel  the  minor  to  ensure
     9  that  the  minor fully understands and appreciates the nature and conse-
    10  quences of receiving the vaccine, has the capacity  to  consent  and  is
    11  providing informed consent, and that the vaccine indicated for the minor
    12  is not contraindicated by the minor's medical history.
    13    3. For the purposes of this section:
    14    a.  "Health  care  practitioner"  means  a  health  care  practitioner
    15  licensed, certified or otherwise  authorized  to  practice  under  title
    16  eight  of  the  education  law,  acting within the practitioner's lawful
    17  scope of practice.
    18    b. "Vaccine" means a biological product intended to  confer  immuniza-
    19  tion  to  an  infection or disease which meets the standards approved by
    20  the United States public health service for  such  biological  products,
    21  and  is  consistent  with  a recommendation of the advisory committee on
    22  immunization practices of the centers for disease control and prevention
    23  with respect to the patient  involved,  or  which  is  approved  by  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03768-01-5
        S. 1570                             2

     1  department  under  such  conditions  as  may  be specified by the public
     2  health council.
     3    c.  "Capacity  to  consent"  means an individual's ability, determined
     4  without regard to the individual's age, to understand and appreciate the
     5  nature and consequences of the proposed  vaccination,  and  to  make  an
     6  informed decision concerning the administration of the vaccine.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.