Bill Text: NY A02143 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires immunization of certain post-secondary students for COVID-19.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-11 - enacting clause stricken [A02143 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02143-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2143

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
          immunization of certain post-secondary students against COVID-19

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 2165 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1989,  paragraph  b  as  amended  by
     3  chapter 325 of the laws of 1991, and subdivision 13 is renumbered subdi-
     4  vision 12, is amended to read as follows:
     5    1. As used in this section, unless the context requires otherwise:
     6    a. The term "institution" means a college as defined in section two of
     7  the education law.
     8    b. The term "student" means any person born on or after January first,
     9  nineteen  hundred  fifty-seven,  who  is registered to attend or attends
    10  classes at an institution, whether full-time  or  part-time.  "Part-time
    11  student"  shall mean a student who is enrolled for at least six but less
    12  than twelve semester hours, or the equivalent per semester or  at  least
    13  four but less than eight semester hours per quarter at an institution.
    14    c.  The  term "health practitioner" means any person authorized by law
    15  to administer an immunization.
    16    d. The term "immunization" means an  adequate  dose  or  doses  of  an
    17  immunizing  agent  against  measles,  mumps [and], rubella and the novel
    18  coronavirus (COVID-19) which meets the standards approved by the  United
    19  States  public health service for such biological products, and which is
    20  approved by the state department of health under such conditions as  may
    21  be specified by the public health council.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01193-01-3