Requires health care providers and practitioners to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines, the manufacturer product insert, the vaccines' potential side effects and where to report vaccine-adverse events forty-eight hours prior to immunization.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5236
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health
care providers and practitioners to provide patients with a list of
ingredients contained in vaccines
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2166 of the public health law, as added by chapter
2 573 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 2166. Immunization; regulations; requirements. 1. The commissioner
4 may promulgate regulations with respect to immunization conducted by a
5 home care services agency licensed pursuant to section thirty-six
6 hundred five of this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six
7 hundred eight of this chapter, facilities or institutions established
8 under article twenty-eight of this chapter, and other health care
9 providers and practitioners, including, but not limited to, standards
10 for the quality of care and services provided, consistent with the
11 education law.
12 2. Every health care provider or practitioner who administers immuni-
13 zations shall provide all the following information to the patient or a
14 person in parental relation to the patient forty-eight hours prior to
15 administering a vaccine:
16 a. The safety, benefits, risks and potential side effects of each
17 vaccine.
18 b. The list of ingredients contained in each vaccine as provided by
19 the manufacturer and the manufacturer product insert for each vaccine.
20 c. The United States centers for disease control and prevention's
21 vaccine excipient and media summary.
22 d. How and where to report a vaccine-adverse event.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02247-01-1
