Bill Text: NY A06437 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of health to provide at least one site in each county of the state which offers COVID-19 vaccinations and to establish an enrollment portal which shall enable residents to be notified once they become eligible for the vaccine.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A06437 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06437-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6437

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 17, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT relating to requiring the department  of  health  to  provide  at
          least  one  site  in  each  county  of the state which offers COVID-19
          vaccinations

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  the  department  of health shall establish at least one location in each
     3  county in the state where  COVID-19  vaccinations  shall  be  available;
     4  provided,  however,  that  a  county  may  opt out of such department of
     5  health vaccination site requirement by providing written notification of
     6  such option to the department.
     7    § 2. The department of health shall  establish  an  enrollment  portal
     8  enabling residents to receive notification when they become eligible for
     9  the  COVID-19 vaccination and the location of the site nearest the resi-
    10  dent.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10317-03-1