Assembly Bill A8383

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Removes the requirement to follow the centers for disease control and prevention recommendation for immunization against meningococcal disease

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8383 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7823
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2164, Pub Health L

2025-A8383 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the requirement to follow the advisory committee on immunization practices of the centers for disease control and prevention recommendation for immunization against meningococcal disease.

2025-A8383 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8383
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LASHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health law, in relation to removing the
   requirement to follow the centers for disease control  and  prevention
   recommendation for immunization against meningococcal disease

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 2 of section 2164 of the  public
 health  law,  as added by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
 read as follows:
   c. Every person in parental relation to a child in this state entering
 or having entered seventh grade and twelfth grade or  a  comparable  age
 level  special  education  program  with an unassigned grade on or after
 September first, two thousand sixteen, shall have administered  to  such
 child an adequate dose or doses of immunizing agents against meningococ-
 cal  disease  [as  recommended by the advisory committee on immunization
 practices of the centers for  disease  control  and  prevention,]  which
 meets  the standards approved by the United States public health service
 for such biological products, and which is approved  by  the  department
 under such conditions as may be specified by the public health and plan-
 ning council.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11946-01-5

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