Requires health care providers to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines and information relating to vaccine safety, including medical exemptions for school age children.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7214--A
IN SENATE
January 10, 2020
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Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health
care practitioners to provide patients with a list of ingredients
contained in vaccines
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; requirements. 1. The commissioner
4 may promulgate regulations with respect to immunization conducted by a
5 home care services agency licensed pursuant to section thirty-six
6 hundred five of this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six
7 hundred eight of this chapter, facilities or institutions established
8 under article twenty-eight of this chapter, and other health care
9 providers and practitioners, including, but not limited to, standards
10 for the quality of care and services provided, consistent with the
11 education law.
12 2. Every health care provider who administers immunizations shall
13 provide the patient or a person in parental relation to the patient with
14 a list of ingredients contained in such vaccine, as provided by the
15 manufacturer, at least five days in advance of such immunization. The
16 health care provider shall send the information to the patient via elec-
17 tronic transmission or mail upon the appointment being set. In the event
18 that the patient sets the appointment within five days of the appoint-
19 ment date, the patient may be provided with the written information the
20 day of the appointment. Every health care provider who administers
21 immunizations shall inform the recipient of the vaccine or the person in
22 parental relation to the patient about vaccine safety, benefits, poten-
23 tial adverse effects, information provided by the federal Centers for
24 Disease Control regarding persons who should not be vaccinated and state
25 law allowing medical exemptions from vaccinations for children attending
26 school.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14447-04-0