Bill Text: NY A06478 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires healthcare workers who are reasonably expected to practice in close proximity to children less than twelve months of age to be vaccinated against pertussis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A06478 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06478-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6478--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health-
          care workers practicing in  close  proximity  to  children  less  than
          twelve months of age to be vaccinated against pertussis

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2166 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
     2  573 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  2166. Immunization; regulations. 1. The commissioner may promulgate
     4  regulations with respect  to  immunization  conducted  by  a  home  care
     5  services  agency licensed pursuant to section thirty-six hundred five of
     6  this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six  hundred  eight
     7  of  this  chapter,  facilities or institutions established under article
     8  twenty-eight of this chapter, and other health care providers and  prac-
     9  titioners,  including,  but not limited to, standards for the quality of
    10  care and services provided, consistent with the education law.
    11    2. Personnel working  in  health  care  settings  who  are  reasonably
    12  expected to come into contact with children twelve months old or younger
    13  in  the  health  care  setting shall be vaccinated against pertussis, as
    14  provided in regulations of the commissioner.
    15    3. Regulations promulgated under this section shall be consistent with
    16  the standards approved by the United States public health service.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    18  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
    19  ly  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal  of any rule or regulation
    20  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    21  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.

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