STATE OF NEW YORK
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3898
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 adult immunization
reporting requirements
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 (b) of subdivision 3 of
2 section 2168 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 420 of the
3 laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) Any health care provider who administers any vaccine to a person
5 nineteen years of age or older, [may] shall report, with the consent of
6 the vaccinee, all such immunizations to the department in a format
7 prescribed by the commissioner within fourteen days of administration of
8 such immunizations. Health care providers administering immunizations to
9 persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York [may]
10 shall report, with the consent of the vaccinee, in a format prescribed
11 by the city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all
12 such immunizations to the citywide immunization registry.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01647-01-5
