STATE OF NEW YORK
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1736
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, REYES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring immuni-
zation information systems to record data on the number of vaccine
exemptions reported by each health care provider
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 5 of section 2168 of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2019, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (f) The immunization status of children exempt from immunizations
5 pursuant to subdivision eight of section twenty-one hundred sixty-four
6 of this title shall be reported by the health care provider. Such
7 reported information shall be entered into the statewide immunization
8 information system and the New York city health department's citywide
9 immunization registry by the department or, as appropriate, by the
10 department of health and mental hygiene for the city of New York, in a
11 manner that allows the commissioner and his or her designees to search
12 and access the number of exemptions reported by each individual health
13 care provider.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00831-01-3
