NY State Assembly Bill A8280C

	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 23, 2022	reported referred to rules
May 16, 2022	print number 8280c
May 16, 2022	amend and recommit to codes
May 10, 2022	reported referred to codes
May 06, 2022	print number 8280b
May 06, 2022	amend (t) and recommit to health
Apr 26, 2022	print number 8280a
Apr 26, 2022	amend and recommit to health
Jan 05, 2022	referred to health
Sep 13, 2021	referred to health

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A8280 - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3005-c, amd §2168, Pub Health L; amd §§6527 & 6909, Ed L

A8280 - Summary

Authorizes emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical technician to administer certain vaccines; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

A8280 - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8280
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, LUPARDO, GALLAHAN, OTIS, GALEF, ABINAN-
   TI,  BUTTENSCHON,  FAHY, B. MILLER, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by --
   M. of A. ANGELINO, J. M. GIGLIO --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to authorizing
   certain emergency medical technicians  and  paramedics  to  administer
   certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the
   authority of an emergency medical services director
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 3005-c to read as follows:
   § 3005-C. VACCINATION BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND PARAMEDICS.
 1.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNI-
 CIANS MAY ADMINISTER VACCINATIONS AGAINST INFLUENZA AND COVID-19  PURSU-
 ANT  TO A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC ORDER AND UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF AN EMER-
 GENCY MEDICAL SERVICES  DIRECTOR  WHILE  OVERSEEN  OR  APPROVED  BY  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OF HEALTH OR LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND OPERATED UNDER THE
 MEDICAL SUPERVISION OF LICENSED PHYSICIANS, LICENSED  PHYSICIAN  ASSIST-
 ANTS,  OR  CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PROVIDED THAT SUCH INDIVIDUALS
 FIRST RECEIVE TRAINING IN THE FOLLOWING  AREAS,  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION:
   (A) TECHNIQUES, INDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, INFECTION
 CONTROL PRACTICES;
   (B)  USE  OF  PERSONAL  PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE THE
 BASIC LEVEL OF COMPETENCE FOR SUCH TASKS; AND
   (C) A CURRENT  CERTIFICATE  IN  BASIC  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION,
 WHICH AT A MINIMUM MUST INCLUDE A CERTIFICATION IN BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY
 RESUSCITATION  BY AN ONLINE PROGRAM THAT HAS RECEIVED ACCREDITATION FROM
 THE AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER, THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL  FOR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13126-02-1

 A. 8280                             2
 
 PHARMACY  EDUCATION  (ACPE), OR THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING
 MEDICAL EDUCATION.
   2.  CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN-PARAMEDICS PROVIDING COMMU-
 NITY PARAMEDICINE SERVICES AND WITH PRIOR APPROVAL  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT,
 MAY ADMINISTER VACCINATIONS AGAINST INFLUENZA AND COVID-19 PURSUANT TO A
 NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC ORDER AND UNDER THE MEDICAL DIRECTION OF A LICENSED
 PHYSICIAN;  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN-PARAMEDICS
 FIRST RECEIVE TRAINING IN THE FOLLOWING  AREAS,  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION:
   (A) TECHNIQUES, INDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, INFECTION
 CONTROL PRACTICES;
   (B)  USE  OF  PERSONAL  PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE THE
 BASIC LEVEL OF COMPETENCE FOR SUCH TASKS; AND
   (C) A CURRENT  CERTIFICATE  IN  BASIC  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION,
 WHICH AT A MINIMUM MUST INCLUDE A CERTIFICATION IN BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY
 RESUSCITATION  BY AN ONLINE PROGRAM THAT HAS RECEIVED ACCREDITATION FROM
 THE AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER, THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL  FOR
 PHARMACY  EDUCATION  (ACPE), OR THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING
 MEDICAL EDUCATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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A8280A - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3005-c, amd §2168, Pub Health L; amd §§6527 & 6909, Ed L

A8280A - Summary

Authorizes emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical technician to administer certain vaccines; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

A8280A - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8280--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, LUPARDO, GALLAHAN, OTIS, GALEF, ABINAN-
   TI,  BUTTENSCHON,  FAHY,  B. MILLER, GOTTFRIED, ENGLEBRIGHT, SANTABAR-
   BARA, KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGELINO,  J. M. GIGLIO
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
   the  Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to authorizing
   certain emergency medical technicians  and  paramedics  to  administer
   certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the
   authority of an emergency medical services director
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 3005-c to read as follows:
   § 3005-C. VACCINATION BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND PARAMEDICS.
 1.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND ADVANCED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNI-
 CIANS MAY ADMINISTER VACCINATIONS AGAINST INFLUENZA AND COVID-19  PURSU-
 ANT  TO A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC ORDER AND UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF AN EMER-
 GENCY MEDICAL SERVICES  DIRECTOR  WHILE  OVERSEEN  OR  APPROVED  BY  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OF HEALTH OR LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND OPERATED UNDER THE
 MEDICAL SUPERVISION OF LICENSED PHYSICIANS, LICENSED  PHYSICIAN  ASSIST-
 ANTS,  OR  CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PROVIDED THAT SUCH INDIVIDUALS
 FIRST RECEIVE TRAINING IN THE FOLLOWING  AREAS,  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE
 COMMISSIONER AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION:
   (A) TECHNIQUES, INDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, INFECTION
 CONTROL PRACTICES;
   (B)  USE  OF  PERSONAL  PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE THE
 BASIC LEVEL OF COMPETENCE FOR SUCH TASKS; AND
   (C) A CURRENT  CERTIFICATE  IN  BASIC  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION,
 WHICH AT A MINIMUM MUST INCLUDE A CERTIFICATION IN BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13126-03-2

 A. 8280--A                          2
 
 RESUSCITATION  BY AN ONLINE PROGRAM THAT HAS RECEIVED ACCREDITATION FROM
 THE AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER, THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL  FOR
 PHARMACY  EDUCATION  (ACPE), OR THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING
 MEDICAL EDUCATION.
   2.  CERTIFIED  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN-PARAMEDICS,  WITH  PRIOR
 APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT, MAY ADMINISTER VACCINATIONS AGAINST INFLUEN-
 ZA AND COVID-19 PURSUANT TO A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC ORDER AND  UNDER  THE
 MEDICAL  DIRECTION OF A LICENSED PHYSICIAN; PROVIDED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL TECHNICIAN-PARAMEDICS FIRST RECEIVE TRAINING  IN  THE  FOLLOWING
 AREAS,  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE COMMISSIONER AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE
 COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION:
   (A) TECHNIQUES, INDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, INFECTION
 CONTROL PRACTICES;
   (B) USE OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT  SUFFICIENT  TO  PROVIDE  THE
 BASIC LEVEL OF COMPETENCE FOR SUCH TASKS; AND
   (C)  A  CURRENT  CERTIFICATE  IN  BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION,
 WHICH AT A MINIMUM MUST INCLUDE A CERTIFICATION IN BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY
 RESUSCITATION BY AN ONLINE PROGRAM THAT HAS RECEIVED ACCREDITATION  FROM
 THE  AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER, THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR
 PHARMACY EDUCATION (ACPE), OR THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL  FOR  CONTINUING
 MEDICAL EDUCATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Multi-Sponsors

A8280B - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3005-c, amd §2168, Pub Health L; amd §§6527 & 6909, Ed L

A8280B - Summary

Authorizes emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical technician to administer certain vaccines; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

A8280B - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8280--B
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, LUPARDO, GALLAHAN, OTIS, GALEF, ABINAN-
   TI,  BUTTENSCHON,  FAHY,  B. MILLER, GOTTFRIED, ENGLEBRIGHT, SANTABAR-
   BARA, KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGELINO,  J. M. GIGLIO
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
   the  Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted  to  said  committee -- again reported from said committee
   with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to  said
   committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing emer-
   gency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines  pursuant  to
   non-patient  specific  orders  and under the authority of an emergency
   medical services director; to amend the education law, in relation  to
   authorizing  physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe
   and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical techni-
   cian to administer certain vaccines; and providing for the  repeal  of
   such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 3005-c to read as follows:
   §  3005-C.  VACCINATION BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. 1. EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL TECHNICIANS MAY, PURSUANT TO A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC ORDER  UNDER
 SECTIONS  SIXTY-NINE HUNDRED NINE AND SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN OF
 THE EDUCATION LAW AND  UNDER  THE  AUTHORITY  OF  AN  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL
 SERVICES DIRECTOR WHILE OVERSEEN OR APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
 OR  LOCAL  HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND OPERATED UNDER THE MEDICAL SUPERVISION
 OF LICENSED PHYSICIANS,  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN  ASSISTANTS,  OR  CERTIFIED
 NURSE  PRACTITIONERS  ADMINISTER  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO PREVENT INFLUENZA TO
 PERSONS TWO YEARS OF AGE  OR  OLDER,  AND  ADMINISTER  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO
 PREVENT  COVID-19  TO  PERSONS  EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, PROVIDED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13126-05-2

 A. 8280--B                          2
 
 THAT SUCH INDIVIDUALS FIRST RECEIVE TRAINING IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS,  AS
 DETERMINED  BY THE COMMISSIONER AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER
 OF EDUCATION:
   (A) TECHNIQUES, INDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, INFECTION
 CONTROL PRACTICES;
   (B)  USE  OF  PERSONAL  PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE THE
 BASIC LEVEL OF COMPETENCE FOR SUCH TASKS; AND
   (C) A CURRENT  CERTIFICATE  IN  BASIC  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION,
 WHICH AT A MINIMUM MUST INCLUDE A CERTIFICATION IN BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY
 RESUSCITATION  BY AN ONLINE PROGRAM THAT HAS RECEIVED ACCREDITATION FROM
 THE AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER, THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL  FOR
 PHARMACY  EDUCATION  (ACPE), OR THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING
 MEDICAL EDUCATION.
   2. WHEN AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN ADMINISTERS AN IMMUNIZATION TO
 PREVENT INFLUENZA OR COVID-19, THEY SHALL:
   (A) REPORT SUCH ADMINISTRATION TO  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH  EITHER
 THROUGH  THE  STATEWIDE  IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM OR THE CITYWIDE
 IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY UNDER SECTION TWENTY-ONE  HUNDRED  SIXTY-EIGHT  OF
 THIS  CHAPTER,  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  THAT SECTION TO THE
 CONTRARY; AND
   (B) PRIOR TO ADMINISTERING THE IMMUNIZATION, INFORM  THE  PATIENT  OR,
 WHERE APPLICABLE, THE PERSON LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PATIENT, ON THE
 IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER.
   §  2.  Subparagraph  (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section
 2168 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 420 of the laws  of
 2014,  is  amended  and  a  new  subparagraph  (iii) is added to read as
 follows:
   (ii) A registered professional nurse, or a pharmacist who  administers
 a vaccine pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one
 of the education law, OR AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN WHO ADMINISTERS
 AN  IMMUNIZATION  TO  PREVENT  INFLUENZA OR COVID-19 UNDER SECTION THREE
 THOUSAND FIVE-C OF THIS CHAPTER, to a person nineteen years  of  age  or
 older,  shall report, with the consent of the vaccinee, all such immuni-
 zations to the department in a format  prescribed  by  the  commissioner
 within fourteen days of administration of such immunizations. Registered
 professional  nurses or pharmacists administering immunizations pursuant
 to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of  the  education
 law,  to  persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York
 shall report, with the consent of the vaccinee, in a  format  prescribed
 by  the  city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all
 such immunizations to the citywide immunization registry.
   (III) AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN WHO ADMINISTERS AN  IMMUNIZATION
 UNDER  SECTION  THREE  THOUSAND FIVE-C OF THIS CHAPTER, TO A PERSON LESS
 THAN NINETEEN YEARS OF  AGE,  SHALL  REPORT  ALL  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO  THE
 DEPARTMENT  IN  A  FORMAT PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER WITHIN FOURTEEN
 DAYS OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE IMMUNIZATIONS. EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNI-
 CIANS  ADMINISTERING  SUCH  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO PERSONS LESS THAN NINETEEN
 YEARS OF AGE IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK  SHALL  REPORT,  IN  A  FORMAT
 PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  CITY  OF NEW YORK COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND MENTAL
 HYGIENE, ALL IMMUNIZATIONS TO THE CITYWIDE IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY.
   § 3. Section 6527 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 7-b to read as follows:
   7-B.  A  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN  MAY  PRESCRIBE  AND  ORDER A NON-PATIENT
 SPECIFIC ORDER TO AN EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN  PURSUANT  TO  REGU-
 LATIONS  MADE BY THE COMMISSIONER, AND CONSISTENT WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH
 LAW, FOR:
 A. 8280--B                          3
 
   (A) ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS TO PREVENT INFLUENZA  TO  PERSONS  TWO
 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; AND
   (B)  ADMINISTERING  IMMUNIZATIONS TO PREVENT COVID-19 TO PERSONS EIGH-
 TEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   § 4. Section 6909 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11.  A  CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER MAY PRESCRIBE AND ORDER A NON-PA-
 TIENT SPECIFIC ORDER TO AN  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN  PURSUANT  TO
 REGULATIONS  MADE  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER, AND CONSISTENT WITH THE PUBLIC
 HEALTH LAW, FOR:
   (A) ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS TO PREVENT INFLUENZA  TO  PERSONS  TWO
 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; AND
   (B)  ADMINISTERING  IMMUNIZATIONS TO PREVENT COVID-19 TO PERSONS EIGH-
 TEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed June 1, 2024.

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Multi-Sponsors

A8280C (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3005-c, amd §2168, Pub Health L; amd §§6527 & 6909, Ed L

A8280C (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical technician to administer certain vaccines; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

A8280C (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8280--C
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, LUPARDO, GALLAHAN, OTIS, GALEF, ABINAN-
   TI,  BUTTENSCHON,  FAHY,  B. MILLER, GOTTFRIED, ENGLEBRIGHT, SANTABAR-
   BARA, KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGELINO,  J. M. GIGLIO
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
   the  Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted  to  said  committee -- again reported from said committee
   with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to  said
   committee  --  reported  and  referred  to  the  Committee on Codes --
   committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing emer-
   gency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines  pursuant  to
   non-patient  specific  orders  and under the authority of an emergency
   medical services director; to amend the education law, in relation  to
   authorizing  physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe
   and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical techni-
   cian to administer certain vaccines; and providing for the  repeal  of
   such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 3005-c to read as follows:
   §  3005-C.  VACCINATION BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. 1. EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL TECHNICIANS MAY, PURSUANT TO A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC ORDER  UNDER
 SECTIONS  SIXTY-NINE HUNDRED NINE AND SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN OF
 THE EDUCATION LAW AND  UNDER  THE  AUTHORITY  OF  AN  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL
 SERVICES DIRECTOR WHILE OVERSEEN OR APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
 OR  LOCAL  HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND OPERATED UNDER THE MEDICAL SUPERVISION
 OF LICENSED PHYSICIANS,  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN  ASSISTANTS,  OR  CERTIFIED
 NURSE  PRACTITIONERS  ADMINISTER  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO PREVENT INFLUENZA TO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13126-07-2

 A. 8280--C                          2
 
 PERSONS TWO YEARS OF AGE  OR  OLDER,  AND  ADMINISTER  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO
 PREVENT  COVID-19  TO  PERSONS  EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, PROVIDED
 THAT SUCH INDIVIDUALS FIRST RECEIVE TRAINING IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS,  AS
 DETERMINED  BY THE COMMISSIONER AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER
 OF EDUCATION:
   (A) TECHNIQUES, INDICATIONS, PRECAUTIONS, CONTRAINDICATIONS, INFECTION
 CONTROL PRACTICES;
   (B) USE OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT  SUFFICIENT  TO  PROVIDE  THE
 BASIC LEVEL OF COMPETENCE FOR SUCH TASKS; AND
   (C)  A  CURRENT  CERTIFICATE  IN  BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION,
 WHICH AT A MINIMUM MUST INCLUDE A CERTIFICATION IN BASIC CARDIOPULMONARY
 RESUSCITATION BY AN ONLINE PROGRAM THAT HAS RECEIVED ACCREDITATION  FROM
 THE  AMERICAN NURSES CREDENTIALING CENTER, THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR
 PHARMACY EDUCATION (ACPE), OR THE ACCREDITATION COUNCIL  FOR  CONTINUING
 MEDICAL EDUCATION.
   2. WHEN AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN ADMINISTERS AN IMMUNIZATION TO
 PREVENT INFLUENZA OR COVID-19, THEY SHALL:
   (A)  REPORT  SUCH  ADMINISTRATION  TO  THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EITHER
 THROUGH THE STATEWIDE IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION SYSTEM  OR  THE  CITYWIDE
 IMMUNIZATION  REGISTRY  UNDER  SECTION TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-EIGHT OF
 THIS CHAPTER; AND
   (B) PRIOR TO ADMINISTERING THE IMMUNIZATION, INFORM  THE  PATIENT  OR,
 WHERE APPLICABLE, THE PERSON LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PATIENT, ON THE
 IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER.
   §  2.  Subparagraph  (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section
 2168 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 420 of the laws  of
 2014,  is  amended  and  a  new  subparagraph  (iii) is added to read as
 follows:
   (ii) A registered professional nurse, or a pharmacist who  administers
 a vaccine pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one
 of the education law, OR AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN WHO ADMINISTERS
 AN  IMMUNIZATION  TO  PREVENT  INFLUENZA OR COVID-19 UNDER SECTION THREE
 THOUSAND FIVE-C OF THIS CHAPTER, to a person nineteen years  of  age  or
 older,  shall report, with the consent of the vaccinee, all such immuni-
 zations to the department in a format  prescribed  by  the  commissioner
 within fourteen days of administration of such immunizations. Registered
 professional  nurses or pharmacists administering immunizations pursuant
 to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of  the  education
 law,  to  persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York
 shall report, with the consent of the vaccinee, in a  format  prescribed
 by  the  city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all
 such immunizations to the citywide immunization registry.
   (III) AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN WHO ADMINISTERS AN  IMMUNIZATION
 UNDER  SECTION  THREE  THOUSAND FIVE-C OF THIS CHAPTER, TO A PERSON LESS
 THAN NINETEEN YEARS OF  AGE,  SHALL  REPORT  ALL  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO  THE
 DEPARTMENT  IN  A  FORMAT PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMISSIONER WITHIN FOURTEEN
 DAYS OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE IMMUNIZATIONS. EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNI-
 CIANS  ADMINISTERING  SUCH  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO PERSONS LESS THAN NINETEEN
 YEARS OF AGE IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK  SHALL  REPORT,  IN  A  FORMAT
 PRESCRIBED  BY  THE  CITY  OF NEW YORK COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND MENTAL
 HYGIENE, ALL IMMUNIZATIONS TO THE CITYWIDE IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY.
   § 3. Section 6527 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 7-b to read as follows:
   7-B.  A  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN  MAY  PRESCRIBE  AND  ORDER A NON-PATIENT
 SPECIFIC ORDER TO AN EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  TECHNICIAN  PURSUANT  TO  REGU-
 A. 8280--C                          3
 
 LATIONS  MADE BY THE COMMISSIONER, AND CONSISTENT WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH
 LAW, FOR:
   (A)  ADMINISTERING  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO PREVENT INFLUENZA TO PERSONS TWO
 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; AND
   (B) ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS TO PREVENT COVID-19 TO  PERSONS  EIGH-
 TEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   §  4.  Section  6909  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11. A CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER MAY PRESCRIBE AND ORDER  A  NON-PA-
 TIENT  SPECIFIC  ORDER  TO  AN  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN PURSUANT TO
 REGULATIONS MADE BY THE COMMISSIONER, AND  CONSISTENT  WITH  THE  PUBLIC
 HEALTH LAW, FOR:
   (A)  ADMINISTERING  IMMUNIZATIONS  TO PREVENT INFLUENZA TO PERSONS TWO
 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; AND
   (B) ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS TO PREVENT COVID-19 TO  PERSONS  EIGH-
 TEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed June 1, 2024.

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