STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
5724
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 requiring the
immunization of certain post-secondary students against hepatitis B
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 2165 of the public
2 health law, as added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1989, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 d. The term "immunization" means an adequate dose or doses of an
5 immunizing agent against measles, mumps [and], rubella and hepatitis B
6 which meets the standards approved by the United States public health
7 service for such biological products, and which is approved by the state
8 department of health under such conditions as may be specified by the
9 public health council.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
11 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
12 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
13 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
14 to be made and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05346-01-5
