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Assembly Bill A750

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to school grade or age requirements for certain immunizations

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2017-A750 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2164, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9403
2019-2020: A3710

2017-A750 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to school grade or age requirements for certain immunizations.

2017-A750 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    750
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  school  grade  or
   age requirements for certain immunizations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 2164 of the  public
 health law, as amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
 read as follows:
   b.  Every person in parental relation to a child in this state born on
 or after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-four  and  entering
 [sixth]  SEVENTH  grade  or  a  comparable  age  level special education
 program with an unassigned grade on or after September first, two  thou-
 sand  [seven] SEVENTEEN, shall have administered to such child a booster
 immunization containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and an acellular
 pertussis vaccine, which meets the  standards  approved  by  the  United
 States  public health service for such biological products, and which is
 approved by the department under such conditions as may be specified  by
 the public health council.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03757-01-7

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