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Senate Bill S8113

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting exemptions from immunizations; repealer

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2023-S8113 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2125
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2164-a, rpld §2165 sub 9, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8398
2025-2026: S5700, A3325

2023-S8113 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits exemptions from immunization requirements by local governments and private entities to medical exemptions; repeals religious exemptions for certain post-secondary students.

2023-S8113 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8113 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8113
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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  limiting
   exemptions  from  immunizations;  and  to repeal certain provisions of
   such law relating to religious exemptions for  certain  post-secondary
   students

   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
 2164-a to read as follows:
   §  2164-A. IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTIONS. NO ORGANIZATION OR ENTITY, INCLUD-
 ING A LOCAL GOVERNMENT,  SCHOOL  BOARD,  BUSINESS,  OR  EMPLOYER,  WHICH
 REQUIRES  IMMUNIZATION  AGAINST  ANY  DISEASE SHALL PERMIT ANY EXEMPTION
 FROM SUCH REQUIREMENT EXCEPT A MEDICAL EXEMPTION.  ANY  PROVISION  OF  A
 LAW, RULE, REGULATION, OR POLICY ADOPTED BY ANY ENTITY THAT ALLOWS FOR A
 NON-MEDICAL  EXEMPTION  TO  AN  IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENT SHALL BE DEEMED
 NULL AND VOID. A MEDICAL EXEMPTION SHALL  BE  ESTABLISHED  IN  THE  SAME
 MANNER  AS  SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF SECTION TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED
 SIXTY-FOUR OF THIS TITLE.
   § 2. Subdivision 9 of  section  2165  of  the  public  health  law  is
 REPEALED.
   §  3.  Severability.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,
 section or part of this title shall be adjudged by any court  of  compe-
 tent  jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair
 or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its opera-
 tion to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,  section  or  part
 thereof  directly  involved  in  the  controversy in which such judgment
 shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared the intent of the legis-
 lature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such  invalid
 provisions had not been included herein.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01357-01-3

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