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Assembly Bill A2078

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the immunization of certain post-secondary students against hepatitis B

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2025-A2078 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5724
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2165, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9440, S8417

2025-A2078 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the immunization of certain post-secondary students against hepatitis B.

2025-A2078 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2078
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
   immunization of certain post-secondary students against hepatitis B
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 2165 of the public
 health law, as added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1989, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   d.  The  term  "immunization"  means  an  adequate dose or doses of an
 immunizing agent against measles, mumps [and], rubella AND  HEPATITIS  B
 which  meets  the  standards approved by the United States public health
 service for such biological products, and which is approved by the state
 department of health under such conditions as may be  specified  by  the
 public health council.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
 for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05346-01-5

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