Requires parents direct all appeals for school immunization exemptions to the director of the bureau of immunizations; repeals provisions requiring such appeals be directed towards the commissioner of education.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7324
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing parents
file petitions for a child denied school entrance or attendance to the
director of the bureau of immunizations; and to repeal subdivision 6-a
of section 310 of the education law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6-a of section 310 of the education law is
2 REPEALED.
3 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 2164 of the public
4 health law, as amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
5 read as follows:
6 (b) A parent, a guardian or any other person in parental relationship
7 to a child denied school entrance or attendance may appeal by petition
8 to the [commissioner of education in accordance with the provisions of
9 section three hundred ten of the education law] director of the bureau
10 of immunization.
11 § 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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