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                                   7154
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adult immunization
   reporting requirements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. 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 to read as follows:
   (b) (i) Any health care provider who  administers  any  vaccine  to  a
 person  nineteen  years  of  age or older, [may] SHALL report[, with the
 consent of the vaccinee,] all such immunizations to the department in  a
 format  prescribed  by the commissioner within fourteen days of adminis-
 tration of  such  immunizations.  Health  care  providers  administering
 immunizations  to  persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of
 New York [may] 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.  THE  REPORTING BY A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OF ADMINISTRATION OF
 AN IMMUNIZATION TO A PERSON NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO A REGIONAL
 HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION OR  OTHER  HEALTH  INFORMATION  EXCHANGE
 SHALL SATISFY THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS IN THIS SECTION IF SUCH DATA IS
 PROVIDED  BY  THE  REGIONAL  HEALTH  INFORMATION  ORGANIZATION OR HEALTH
 INFORMATION EXCHANGE TO THE DEPARTMENT OR CITYWIDE  IMMUNIZATION  REGIS-
 TRY.
   (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, to a person nineteen years of age or older,  shall
 report[,  with  the  consent of the vaccinee,] all such immunizations to
 the department in a format prescribed by the commissioner  within  four-
 teen  days  of  administration of such immunizations. Registered profes-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05405-01-3

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 sional 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. THE REPORTING BY  A
 REGISTERED  PROFESSIONAL  NURSE  OR A PHARMACIST OF ADMINISTRATION OF AN
 IMMUNIZATION TO A PERSON NINETEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER  TO  A  REGIONAL
 HEALTH  INFORMATION  ORGANIZATION  OR  OTHER HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE
 SHALL SATISFY THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS IN THIS SECTION IF SUCH DATA IS
 PROVIDED BY THE  REGIONAL  HEALTH  INFORMATION  ORGANIZATION  OR  HEALTH
 INFORMATION  EXCHANGE  TO THE DEPARTMENT OR CITYWIDE IMMUNIZATION REGIS-
 TRY.
   (III) HOWEVER, NO REPORT SHALL BE MADE UNDER  THIS  PARAGRAPH  IF  THE
 PERSON  TO  WHOM  THE VACCINE IS ADMINISTERED, OR A PERSON AUTHORIZED TO
 CONSENT TO HEALTH CARE FOR THE PERSON, OBJECTS TO THE PERSON WHO  ADMIN-
 ISTERED THE VACCINE, PRIOR TO THE MAKING OF THE REPORT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.