What's happening
This bill changes the required grade for a booster immunization from sixth to seventh grade, effective immediately.
Why it matters
Delaying the booster immunization requirement from sixth to seventh grade. may give parents, schools, and healthcare providers additional time to ensure students are up to date with vaccines, potentially easing logistical or scheduling pressures.
The change aligns the immunization schedule with other educational or developmental milestones. that tend to occur around seventh grade, possibly improving compliance or record-keeping for schools and health departments.
Immediate implementation means current sixth graders will not be subject to the old rule. , which could reduce confusion and administrative burden during the transition for both families and schools.
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Delay School Vaccine Booster
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3710
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to school grade or age requirements for certain immunizations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 2164 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
b. Every person in parental relation to a child in this state born on or after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-four and entering [sixth] seventh grade or a comparable age level special education program with an unassigned grade on or after September first, two thousand [seven] nineteen, shall have administered to such child a booster immunization containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and an acellular pertussis vaccine, which meets the standards approved by the United States public health service for such biological products, and which is approved by the department under such conditions as may be specified by the public health council.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01101-01-9
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