STATE OF NEW YORK
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9809
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting
certain pre-K programs from requiring the influenza vaccine for chil-
dren entering such programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2164 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person in
4 parental relation to a child in this state entering or having entered a
5 child care, head start, nursery, 3-K or pre-K program or a comparable
6 program for children age six months through fifty-nine months, shall be
7 required to have administered to such child an immunization against
8 influenza.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14992-01-0
