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A00279 Summary:

BILL NOA00279A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S00075-A
 
SPONSORGottfried
 
COSPNSRMcDonald, Dinowitz, Paulin, Fernandez, Zinerman, Simon, Stirpe, Lavine, Rodriguez, Burdick, Woerner, Rosenthal L, Fahy, Richardson, Galef, Hevesi, Forrest
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §2168, Pub Health L
 
Requires a health care provider who administers an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to report such information to the department of health or to a regional health information organization unless such person objects to such reporting.
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A00279 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         279--A
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, McDONALD, DINOWITZ, PAULIN, FERNANDEZ,
          ZINERMAN,   SIMON,   STIRPE,   LAVINE,  RODRIGUEZ,  BURDICK,  WOERNER,
          L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY, RICHARDSON, GALEF, HEVESI, FORREST  --  read  once
          and  referred  to  the Committee on Health -- reported and referred to
          the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Rules  --  Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
 
        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.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  3 of section 2168 of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 420 of the  laws  of  2014,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  (i)  Any  health  care  provider who administers any vaccine to a
     5  person nineteen years of age or older, [may]  shall  report[,  with  the
     6  consent  of the vaccinee,] all such immunizations to the department in a
     7  format prescribed by the commissioner within fourteen days  of  adminis-
     8  tration  of  such  immunizations.  Health  care  providers administering
     9  immunizations to persons nineteen years of age or older in the  city  of
    10  New  York  [may]  shall report[, with the consent of the vaccinee,] in a
    11  format prescribed by the city of New York  commissioner  of  health  and
    12  mental  hygiene,  all  such  immunizations  to the citywide immunization
    13  registry. The reporting by a health care provider of  administration  of
    14  an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to a regional
    15  health  information  organization  or  other health information exchange
    16  shall satisfy the reporting requirements in this section if such data is
    17  provided by the  regional  health  information  organization  or  health
    18  information  exchange  to the department or citywide immunization regis-
    19  try.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00349-02-1

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     1    (ii) A registered professional nurse, or a pharmacist who  administers
     2  a vaccine pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one
     3  of  the education law, to a person nineteen years of age or older, shall
     4  report[, with the consent of the vaccinee,] all  such  immunizations  to
     5  the  department  in a format prescribed by the commissioner within four-
     6  teen days of administration of such  immunizations.  Registered  profes-
     7  sional  nurses  or  pharmacists  administering immunizations pursuant to
     8  subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of the education law,
     9  to persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York  shall
    10  report[,  with  the  consent of the vaccinee,] in a format prescribed by
    11  the city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all such
    12  immunizations to the citywide immunization registry. The reporting by  a
    13  registered  professional  nurse  or a pharmacist of administration of an
    14  immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older  to  a  regional
    15  health  information  organization  or  other health information exchange
    16  shall satisfy the reporting requirements in this section if such data is
    17  provided by the  regional  health  information  organization  or  health
    18  information  exchange  to the department or citywide immunization regis-
    19  try.
    20    (iii) However, no report shall be made under  this  paragraph  if  the
    21  person  to  whom  the vaccine is administered, or a person authorized to
    22  consent to health care for the person, objects to the person who  admin-
    23  istered the vaccine, prior to the making of the report.
    24    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.
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