STATE OF NEW YORK
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1201--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to exempting non-re-
sident students at community colleges from the requirement of main-
taining measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) and meningococcal meningitis
records
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2165 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
3 14. This section shall not apply to non-resident students at community
4 colleges as defined in subdivision two of section sixty-three hundred
5 one of the education law.
6 § 2. Section 2167 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
7 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
8 7. This section shall not apply to nonresident students at community
9 colleges as defined in subdivision two of section sixty-three hundred
10 one of the education law.
11 § 3. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 2165 of the public health
12 law, as amended by chapter 325 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
13 as follows:
14 b. The term "student" means any person born on or after January first,
15 nineteen hundred fifty-seven, who is registered to attend or attends
16 classes at an institution, whether full-time or part-time. "Part-time
17 student" shall mean a student who is enrolled for at least six but less
18 than twelve semester hours, or the equivalent per semester or at least
19 four but less than eight semester hours per quarter at an institution.
20 The foregoing notwithstanding, the term "student" shall not include a
21 graduate of a public, private or parochial secondary school that is
22 located in New York.
23 § 4. 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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