Relates to establishing a protocol with specific criteria regarding religious exemptions to immunizations in schools prior to an individual being able to submit a request for religious exemption to immunization form.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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601
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
to establishing a specific protocol regarding religious exemptions to
immunizations in schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2164 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
3 10-a. The commissioner shall work in conjunction with the commissioner
4 of education to establish a protocol with specific criteria for all
5 children described in subdivision nine of this section to qualify for
6 the religious vaccination exemption. Prior to an individual being
7 permitted to submit a request for religious exemption to immunization
8 form, required under 10 NYCRR 66-1.3(d), such individual must be
9 approved under such established protocol. Such protocol shall be
10 created and put into effect prior to the two thousand seventeen--two
11 thousand eighteen school year.
12 § 2. Section 914 of the education law is amended by adding a new
13 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
14 4. The commissioner shall work in conjunction with the commissioner of
15 health to establish a protocol with specific criteria for all children
16 described in subdivision nine of section twenty-one hundred sixty four
17 of the public health law to qualify for the religious vaccination
18 exemption. Prior to an individual being permitted to submit a request
19 for religious exemption to immunization form, required under 10 NYCRR
20 66-1.3(d), such individual must be approved under such established
21 protocol. Such protocol shall be created and put into effect prior to
22 the two thousand seventeen--two thousand eighteen school year.
23 § 3. 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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