Requires that a health care provider who administers an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older must report such information to the department of health or to the New York city citywide immunization registry unless the person receiving the immunization objects to such reporting.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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765
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SIMONE, TAPIA, BORES, BURDICK, SAYEGH,
DAVILA, BRONSON, CUNNINGHAM, REYES -- read once and referred to the
Committee 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.
(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-
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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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I vehemently oppose reporting all adult vaccination information to the department of health or to the New York city citywide immunization registry unless the person receiving the immunization objects to such reporting. I hate the idea of giving the State the power to track all adults according to their vaccination status as well as identify people for arrest or other enforcement. Taking away New Yorkers right to medical privacy to create a database which can so clearly be abused and become state sanctioned segregation is unacceptable. This is a gross violation of our right to privacy. Once this gets started what other personal health information will this database be used for?? This is the taxpayer subsidizing the marketing expenses of some of the most profitable companies in the world. Totally unacceptable and I do not consent to this governmental overreach. Also, how will New Yorkers know they can opt out of this? Will the doctor, school nurse, pharmacist, etc., tell them they can opt out beforehand? I highly doubt it. If New Yorkers aren't aware that they can opt out, or have to read the tiny print hidden somewhere in a form that they never see or are not given, then they won't know.