STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

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2021-2022 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 14, 2021 ___________

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee 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. LBD05743-01-1