Bill Text: NY A06722 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A06722 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06722-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6722

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        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.
                                                                   LBD10665-01-1