assembly Bill A11179

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to administering a COVID-19 vaccine

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Dec 04, 2020 referred to health

A11179 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 21 Title 8 §2178, Pub Health L

A11179 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a COVID-19 vaccine to be administered in accordance with the department of health's COVID-19 vaccination administration program and mandates vaccination in certain situations.

A11179 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11179
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 4, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
   thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  administering  a
   COVID-19 vaccine
 
   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
                                 COVID-19
 SECTION 2178. COVID-19 VACCINATION.
   §  2178. COVID-19 VACCINATION. 1. AT THE TIME A VACCINATION FOR COVID-
 19 IS APPROVED BY THE  UNITED  STATES  FOOD  AND  DRUG  ADMINISTRATION'S
 CENTER  FOR  BIOLOGICS  EVALUATION AND RESEARCH VACCINE PRODUCT APPROVAL
 PROCESS AND THE NEW YORK STATE CLINICAL ADVISORY TASK FORCE, SUCH VACCI-
 NATION SHALL BE REQUIRED TO BE SAFELY  AND  EFFECTIVELY  DISTRIBUTED  IN
 ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE  DEPARTMENT'S  COVID-19 VACCINATION ADMINISTRATION
 PROGRAM.
   2. ONCE THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG  ADMINISTRATION'S  CENTER  FOR
 BIOLOGICS  EVALUATION AND RESEARCH AND THE NEW YORK STATE CLINICAL ADVI-
 SORY TASK FORCE HAVE APPROVED THE SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF A COVID-19
 VACCINATION AND PROMOTION AND DISTRIBUTION PLANS OF  SUCH  VACCINE  HAVE
 BEGUN  PURSUANT  TO THE DEPARTMENT'S COVID-19 VACCINATION ADMINISTRATION
 PROGRAM, IF PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS  DETERMINE  THAT  RESIDENTS  OF  THE
 STATE  ARE NOT DEVELOPING SUFFICIENT IMMUNITY FROM COVID-19, THE DEPART-
 MENT SHALL MANDATE VACCINATION FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS OF INDIVID-
 UALS WHO, AS SHOWN BY CLINICAL DATA, ARE PROVEN TO BE  SAFE  TO  RECEIVE
 SUCH VACCINE.
   3. ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS RECEIVED A MEDICAL EXEMPTION FROM A LICENSED
 MEDICAL  PROFESSIONAL  SHALL  NOT  BE  MANDATED  TO RECEIVE THE COVID-19
 VACCINE AND SHALL BE EXCLUDED FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16430-02-0