assembly Bill A11172

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the coronavirus

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Dec 04, 2020 referred to health

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A11172 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 21 Title 8 §2180, Pub Health L

A11172 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the coronavirus unless a person chooses to be vaccinated; gives legal guardians of children and incapacitated persons the right to choose to vaccinate or not.

A11172 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11172
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 4, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Salka) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  a
   mandatory immunization against the coronavirus
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Article 21 of the public health law is amended by adding  a
 new title 8 to read as follows:
                                  TITLE 8
                        NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19
 SECTION 2180. CORONAVIRUS; VACCINATION.
   §  2180. CORONAVIRUS; VACCINATION. 1. NO VACCINE USED FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF INDUCING IMMUNITY AGAINST CORONAVIRUS IN HUMANS IN THIS  STATE  SHALL
 BE  MADE  A  MANDATORY  IMMUNIZATION.    NO  PERSON SHALL BE REQUIRED TO
 RECEIVE SUCH VACCINE UNLESS SUCH INDIVIDUAL CHOOSES TO BE VACCINATED.
   2. NO CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN SHALL  BE  REQUIRED  TO  RECEIVE
 SUCH  VACCINE AGAINST CORONAVIRUS UNLESS A PERSON IN A PARENTAL RELATION
 TO SUCH CHILD CHOOSES TO HAVE THE CHILD VACCINATED. FOR THE  PURPOSE  OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION THE TERM "PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION TO A CHILD" SHALL
 MEAN AND INCLUDE ANY PERSON WHO IS A PARENT OR LEGALLY APPOINTED GUARDI-
 AN OF A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
   3.  NO  INCAPACITATED PERSON SHALL BE REQUIRED TO RECEIVE SUCH VACCINE
 AGAINST CORONAVIRUS UNLESS A PERSON WHO IS THE LEGAL  GUARDIAN  OF  SUCH
 INCAPACITATED  PERSON CHOOSES TO HAVE THE INCAPACITATED PERSON VACCINAT-
 ED.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION: (A) THE  TERM  "INCAPACITATED
 PERSON" SHALL MEAN ANY PERSON OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN WHO ARE UNABLE TO
 MAKE  OR  COMMUNICATE DECISIONS AFFECTING THEIR PHYSICAL HEALTH, SAFETY,
 OR SELF-CARE; AND  (B) THE TERM "LEGAL GUARDIAN" SHALL MEAN AND  INCLUDE
 ANY PERSON WHO IS OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN AND DESIGNATED BY AN INCAPAC-
 ITATED  PERSON  PRIOR  TO  INCAPACITATION  AS  THEIR LEGAL GUARDIAN OR A
 PERSON LEGALLY APPOINTED BY A COURT AS GUARDIAN  OF  SUCH  INCAPACITATED
 PERSON.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.