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A09440 Summary:

BILL NOA09440
 
SAME ASSAME AS S08417
 
SPONSORPaulin
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 2165, Pub Health L
 
Requires the immunization of certain post-secondary students against hepatitis B.
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A09440 Actions:

BILL NOA09440
 
03/14/2024referred to health
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A09440 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A9440
 
SPONSOR: Paulin
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring the immunization of certain post-secondary students against hepatitis B   PURPOSE: To safeguard public health by ensuring that a high percentage of postse- condary students are immunized against hepatitis B.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 2165 of the public health law. Adds hepatitis B to the list of immunizations required for postsecondary students. Section 2: Sets Effective Date.   JUSTIFICATION: The CDC estimates the actual number of acute hepatitis B cases was close to 14,000 in 2020. Many more people (about 880,000) are estimated to be living with chronic, long-term hepatitis B. The CDC recommends all infants, children, and adults get the hepatitis B vaccine. Required immunization against hepatitis B for college students will reduce hospi- talizations and deaths from hepatitis B, saving lives and saving resources and funding on healthcare costs.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New Bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect which it shall have become amendment and/or repeal of implementation of this act and completed on or before on the first of July next succeeding the date on a law. Effective immediately, the addition, any rule or regulation necessary for the on its effective date are authorized to be made such date.
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A09440 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          9440
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 14, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
          immunization of certain post-secondary students against hepatitis B
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 2165 of the public
     2  health law, as added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1989, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    d.  The  term  "immunization"  means  an  adequate dose or doses of an
     5  immunizing agent against measles, mumps [and], rubella and  hepatitis  B
     6  which  meets  the  standards approved by the United States public health
     7  service for such biological products, and which is approved by the state
     8  department of health under such conditions as may be  specified  by  the
     9  public health council.
    10    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    11  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    12  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    13  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    14  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.
                                                                   LBD11928-01-3
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