Friend, Angelino, McDonough, DeStefano, Bailey, Brown K, Molitor, Brown E
MLTSPNSR
Amd §2504, Pub Health L
Requires a parent, guardian or person in a parental relation to a child under the age of eighteen to be physically present when any immunization is administered to such child.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3455
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring a person
in a parental relation to a child be physically present during any
immunization
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2504 of the public health law, as
2 added by chapter 107 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. (a) Any person who is eighteen years of age or older, or is the
4 parent of a child or has married, or is a homeless youth as defined in
5 section five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law, or receives
6 services at an approved runaway and homeless youth crisis services
7 program or a transitional independent living support program as defined
8 in section five hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law, may give
9 effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for
10 themself, and the consent of no other person shall be necessary.
11 (b) A parent, guardian or person in a parental relation to a child
12 under the age of eighteen shall be physically present when any immuniza-
13 tion is administered to such child unless the child: (i) is an emanci-
14 pated minor; (ii) has been living separate and apart from any parent,
15 guardian, or person in a parental relation to the child; (iii) is a
16 runaway youth as defined in section five hundred thirty-two-a of the
17 executive law; (iv) is a homeless youth as defined in section five
18 hundred thirty-two-a of the executive law; (v) is enrolled in a runaway
19 and homeless youth crisis services program; (vi) is in a residential
20 transitional independent living support program pursuant to section five
21 hundred thirty-two-d of the executive law; (vii) is not under the super-
22 vision or control of a parent, custodian, or legal guardian; or (viii)
23 is not in the care and custody of the office of children and family
24 services.
25 § 2. 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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