assembly Bill A7154

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to adult vaccination reporting requirements

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Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 17, 2023 ordered to third reading rules cal.178
rules report cal.178
reported
May 16, 2023 reported referred to rules
May 11, 2023 referred to health

A7154 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1531
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2168, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A6847, S4494
2021-2022: A279, S75

A7154 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a health care provider who administers an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to report such information to the department of health or to a regional health information organization unless such person objects to such reporting.

A7154 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7154
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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