Requires healthcare workers who are reasonably expected to practice in close proximity to children less than twelve months of age to be vaccinated against pertussis.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6478--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again
reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health-
care workers practicing in close proximity to children less than
twelve months of age to be vaccinated against pertussis
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. 1. The commissioner may promulgate
4 regulations with respect to immunization conducted by a home care
5 services agency licensed pursuant to section thirty-six hundred five of
6 this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six hundred eight
7 of this chapter, facilities or institutions established under article
8 twenty-eight of this chapter, and other health care providers and prac-
9 titioners, including, but not limited to, standards for the quality of
10 care and services provided, consistent with the education law.
11 2. Personnel working in health care settings who are reasonably
12 expected to come into contact with children twelve months old or younger
13 in the health care setting shall be vaccinated against pertussis, as
14 provided in regulations of the commissioner.
15 3. Regulations promulgated under this section shall be consistent with
16 the standards approved by the United States public health service.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
18 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
19 ly the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
20 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
21 authorized 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.
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