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Assembly Bill A3912

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to reports regarding students who are exempted from receiving certain immunizations

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2017-A3912 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2955
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §914, Ed L

2017-A3912 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school districts to report to the department of education the number of students who request to be exempted from receiving certain immunizations, the number of students whose request to be exempted from receiving certain immunizations is granted and the number of students whose request to be exempted from receiving certain immunizations is denied.

2017-A3912 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3912
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. THIELE, GRAF -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  immunizations  for
   children
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 914 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. A. EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT RECEIVING  AT  LEAST  ONE  REQUEST  FOR  AN
 EXEMPTION  FROM  VACCINATION,  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION NINE OF SECTION
 TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, MUST  REPORT  TO
 THE  DEPARTMENT,  BY  JUNE  THIRTIETH  OF  THE GIVEN YEAR, THE FOLLOWING
 INFORMATION:
   (I) THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS FOR WHICH AN EXEMPTION WAS REQUESTED.
   (II) THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS FOR WHICH AN EXEMPTION WAS GRANTED.
   (III) THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS FOR WHICH AN EXEMPTION WAS DENIED.
   B. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL COMPILE DATA REPORTED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH  A
 OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION, AND SHALL REPORT SUCH DATA TO THE LEGISLATURE AND
 THE GOVERNOR BY DECEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided howev-
 er, paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section 914 of the education law, as
 added  by section one of this act, shall take effect one year after such
 date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08605-01-7

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