Assembly Bill A2912A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides for the immunization of all children born after January 1, 2009 against the human papillomavirus (HPV)

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A2912 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S298
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2164 & 613, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A778
2011-2012: A699
2013-2014: A2067, S7315
2015-2016: A1822, S509
2017-2018: A933, S132

2019-A2912 - Summary

Provides for the immunization of all children born after January 1, 2009 with the human papillomavirus (HPV).

2019-A2912 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2912
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, GUNTHER, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by --
   M. of A.  DINOWITZ, LIFTON -- read once and referred to the  Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring immuni-
   zation against human papillomavirus (HPV)

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 2164 of the public health law, as amended by chap-
 ter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2164.  Definitions;  immunization  against  poliomyelitis,   mumps,
 measles,  diphtheria,  rubella,  varicella,  HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV),
 Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib),  pertussis,  tetanus,  pneumococcal
 disease,  meningococcal  disease,  and  hepatitis  B. 1. As used in this
 section, unless the context requires otherwise:
   a. The term "school" means and includes any public, private  or  paro-
 chial child caring center, day nursery, day care agency, nursery school,
 kindergarten, elementary, intermediate or secondary school.
   b. The term "child" shall mean and include any person between the ages
 of two months and eighteen years.
   c.  The  term  "person in parental relation to a child" shall mean and
 include his  father  or  mother,  by  birth  or  adoption,  his  legally
 appointed  guardian, or his custodian. A person shall be regarded as the
 custodian of a child if he has assumed the charge and care of the  child
 because  the  parents  or  legally  appointed guardian of the minor have
 died, are imprisoned, are mentally ill, or have  been  committed  to  an
 institution,  or  because  they have abandoned or deserted such child or
 are living outside the state or their whereabouts are unknown,  or  have
 designated the person pursuant to title fifteen-A of article five of the
 general obligations law as a person in parental relation to the child.
   d.  The term "health practitioner" shall mean any person authorized by
 law to administer an immunization.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2019-A2912A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S298
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2164 & 613, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A778
2011-2012: A699
2013-2014: A2067, S7315
2015-2016: A1822, S509
2017-2018: A933, S132

2019-A2912A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the immunization of all children born after January 1, 2009 with the human papillomavirus (HPV).

2019-A2912A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2912--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, GUNTHER, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by --
   M. of A.  DINOWITZ, LIFTON -- read once and referred to the  Committee
   on  Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  immuni-
   zation against human papillomavirus (HPV)
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2164 of the public health law, as amended by  chap-
 ter  401 of the laws of 2015, subdivisions 6 and 7 as amended by chapter
 35 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2164.  Definitions;  immunization  against  poliomyelitis,   mumps,
 measles,  diphtheria,  rubella, varicella, Haemophilus influenzae type b
 (Hib), pertussis, tetanus, pneumococcal disease, meningococcal  disease,
 [and]  hepatitis  B  AND HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV). 1.  As used in this
 section, unless the context requires otherwise:
   a. The term "school" means and includes any public, private  or  paro-
 chial child caring center, day nursery, day care agency, nursery school,
 kindergarten, elementary, intermediate or secondary school.
   b. The term "child" shall mean and include any person between the ages
 of two months and eighteen years.
   c.  The  term  "person in parental relation to a child" shall mean and
 include his  father  or  mother,  by  birth  or  adoption,  his  legally
 appointed  guardian, or his custodian. A person shall be regarded as the
 custodian of a child if he has assumed the charge and care of the  child
 because  the  parents  or  legally  appointed guardian of the minor have
 died, are imprisoned, are mentally ill, or have  been  committed  to  an
 institution,  or  because  they have abandoned or deserted such child or
 are living outside the state or their whereabouts are unknown,  or  have
 designated the person pursuant to title fifteen-A of article five of the
 general obligations law as a person in parental relation to the child.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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