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                                  5340--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 20, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
   to the administration of immunizations by medical assistants
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  6526 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
   11. ANY MEDICAL ASSISTANT WHEN DRAWING AND ADMINISTERING AN  IMMUNIZA-
 TION  IN  AN OUTPATIENT OFFICE SETTING UNDER THE DIRECT SUPERVISION OF A
 PHYSICIAN, NURSE PRACTITIONER, OR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT.
   § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2113  to
 read as follows:
   § 2113. ADMINISTRATION OF IMMUNIZATIONS; MEDICAL ASSISTANTS.  NOTWITH-
 STANDING ANY OTHER LAW, RULE, OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, PHYSICIANS,
 NURSE  PRACTITIONERS,  AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO
 DELEGATE THE TASK  OF  DRAWING  UP  AND  ADMINISTERING  VACCINATIONS  TO
 MEDICAL  ASSISTANTS  IN AN OUTPATIENT OFFICE SETTING; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
 THAT SUCH VACCINATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED BY THE FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
 FOR  IMMUNIZATION  PRACTICES  AND  CENTERS  FOR  DISEASE   CONTROL   AND
 PREVENTION;  AND  PROVIDED,  FURTHER,  THAT  MEDICAL  ASSISTANTS RECEIVE
 APPROPRIATE TRAINING AND ADEQUATE SUPERVISION IN ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZA-
 TIONS PURSUANT TO REGULATIONS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER IN  CONSUL-
 TATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09017-04-5