NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7823

Senate Bill S7823

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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May 09, 2025	referred to health

2025-S7823 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8383
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §2164, Pub Health L

2025-S7823 (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-S7823 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7823

SPONSOR: HOYLMAN-SIGAL
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to remove the Public Health Law's reference
to the recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control with
regard to vaccine standards for meningococcal disease, which is the only
category of vaccines where such reference is made.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 2164 of the
public health law to eliminate reference to the recommendations of the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention with regard to vaccine standards for meningococ-

cal disease, leaving in place the approval authority of the New York
State Department of Health and the requirement that vaccines meet the
standards approved for biological products by the United States Public
Health Service.

Section 2 states that this act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Trump Administration has sought to undermine the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) and confidence in the efficacy of medically proven
vaccines. Any continued reliance on recommendations of the CDC for New
York's vaccine standards is, at best, unnecessary and may potentially
compromise the New York State Department of Health's capacity to set
standards that serve the public health interests of the state. This bill
would eliminate reference to the CDC with regard to vaccines for menin-
gococcal disease, which is the only place where the CDC is so referenced
in State law in vaccination requirements.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S7823 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7823
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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  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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