STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
624
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 5, 2023
___________
Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 COVID-19
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 2165 of the public health law, as
2 added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1989, paragraph b as amended by
3 chapter 325 of the laws of 1991, and subdivision 13 is renumbered subdi-
4 vision 12, is amended to read as follows:
5 1. As used in this section, unless the context requires otherwise:
6 a. The term "institution" means a college as defined in section two of
7 the education law.
8 b. The term "student" means any person born on or after January first,
9 nineteen hundred fifty-seven, who is registered to attend or attends
10 classes at an institution, whether full-time or part-time. "Part-time
11 student" shall mean a student who is enrolled for at least six but less
12 than twelve semester hours, or the equivalent per semester or at least
13 four but less than eight semester hours per quarter at an institution.
14 c. The term "health practitioner" means any person authorized by law
15 to administer an immunization.
16 d. The term "immunization" means an adequate dose or doses of an
17 immunizing agent against measles, mumps [and], rubella and the novel
18 coronavirus (COVID-19) which meets the standards approved by the United
19 States public health service for such biological products, and which is
20 approved by the state department of health under such conditions as may
21 be specified by the public health council.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01193-01-3
