Senate Bill S7214A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring health care providers to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines

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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-S7214 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2166, Pub Health L

2019-S7214 - Summary

Requires health care providers to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines and information relating to vaccine safety, including medical exemptions for school age children.

2019-S7214 - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7214 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7214
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  health
   care  practitioners  to  provide  patients  with a list of ingredients
   contained in vaccines
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 2166 of the public health law, as added by chapter
 573 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2166. Immunization; regulations; REQUIREMENTS.  1. The  commissioner
 may  promulgate  regulations with respect to immunization conducted by a
 home care  services  agency  licensed  pursuant  to  section  thirty-six
 hundred five of this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six
 hundred  eight  of  this chapter, facilities or institutions established
 under article twenty-eight  of  this  chapter,  and  other  health  care
 providers  and  practitioners,  including, but not limited to, standards
 for the quality of care  and  services  provided,  consistent  with  the
 education law.
   2.  EVERY  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER  WHO ADMINISTERS IMMUNIZATIONS SHALL
 PROVIDE THE PATIENT OR A PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION TO THE PATIENT WITH
 A LIST OF INGREDIENTS CONTAINED IN SUCH  VACCINE,  AS  PROVIDED  BY  THE
 MANUFACTURER,  AT LEAST FIVE DAYS IN ADVANCE OF SUCH IMMUNIZATION. EVERY
 HEALTH CARE PROVIDER WHO  ADMINISTERS  IMMUNIZATIONS  SHALL  INFORM  THE
 RECIPIENT  OF  THE  VACCINE  OR  THE  PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION TO THE
 PATIENT ABOUT  VACCINE  SAFETY,  BENEFITS,  POTENTIAL  ADVERSE  EFFECTS,
 INFORMATION  PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL REGARD-
 ING PERSONS WHO SHOULD NOT BE VACCINATED AND STATE LAW ALLOWING  MEDICAL
 EXEMPTIONS FROM VACCINATIONS FOR CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14447-02-9

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2019-S7214A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2166, Pub Health L

2019-S7214A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires health care providers to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines and information relating to vaccine safety, including medical exemptions for school age children.

2019-S7214A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7214--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. MARTINEZ, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- commit-
   tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
   mitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health
   care practitioners to provide patients  with  a  list  of  ingredients
   contained in vaccines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2166 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
 573 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2166. Immunization; regulations; REQUIREMENTS.  1. The commissioner
 may promulgate regulations with respect to immunization conducted  by  a
 home  care  services  agency  licensed  pursuant  to  section thirty-six
 hundred five of this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six
 hundred eight of this chapter, facilities  or  institutions  established
 under  article  twenty-eight  of  this  chapter,  and  other health care
 providers and practitioners, including, but not  limited  to,  standards
 for  the  quality  of  care  and  services provided, consistent with the
 education law.
   2. EVERY HEALTH CARE  PROVIDER  WHO  ADMINISTERS  IMMUNIZATIONS  SHALL
 PROVIDE THE PATIENT OR A PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATION TO THE PATIENT WITH
 A  LIST  OF  INGREDIENTS  CONTAINED  IN SUCH VACCINE, AS PROVIDED BY THE
 MANUFACTURER, AT LEAST FIVE DAYS IN ADVANCE OF  SUCH  IMMUNIZATION.  THE
 HEALTH CARE PROVIDER SHALL SEND THE INFORMATION TO THE PATIENT VIA ELEC-
 TRONIC TRANSMISSION OR MAIL UPON THE APPOINTMENT BEING SET. IN THE EVENT
 THAT  THE  PATIENT SETS THE APPOINTMENT WITHIN FIVE DAYS OF THE APPOINT-
 MENT DATE, THE PATIENT MAY BE PROVIDED WITH THE WRITTEN INFORMATION  THE
 DAY  OF  THE  APPOINTMENT.    EVERY HEALTH CARE PROVIDER WHO ADMINISTERS
 IMMUNIZATIONS SHALL INFORM THE RECIPIENT OF THE VACCINE OR THE PERSON IN
 PARENTAL RELATION TO THE PATIENT ABOUT VACCINE SAFETY, BENEFITS,  POTEN-
 TIAL  ADVERSE  EFFECTS,  INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL CENTERS FOR
 DISEASE CONTROL REGARDING PERSONS WHO SHOULD NOT BE VACCINATED AND STATE
 LAW ALLOWING MEDICAL EXEMPTIONS FROM VACCINATIONS FOR CHILDREN ATTENDING
 SCHOOL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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