What's happening
This bill requires health care providers to report all adult immunizations to state or city registries, removing the need for patient consent.
Why it matters
Mandates that all adult immunizations be reported to state or city registries, removing the previous requirement for patient consent. This means that adults will no longer be able to opt out of having their vaccination status included in these databases, potentially expanding the scope and completeness of immunization records.
Expands reporting requirements to include not just doctors, but also nurses and pharmacists administering vaccines to adults. This broadens the types of healthcare professionals responsible for compliance, ensuring more comprehensive data collection across various points of care.
Allows reporting via regional health information organizations or health information exchanges. If these entities share the immunization data with the appropriate state or city registry, that counts as fulfilling the reporting requirement—potentially streamlining the process and reducing duplicative data entry for providers.
Could enhance public health efforts by providing more accurate, real-time data on adult vaccination rates. This data could be used to track outbreaks, improve vaccine outreach, and inform policy decisions, but may also raise concerns about individual privacy and data security.
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Require Adult Vaccine Reporting
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- Referred to health
- Referred to health
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Require Adult Vaccine Reporting
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor Brad Hoylman-Sigal
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6847
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 21, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adult immunization reporting requirements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 2168 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 420 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
(b) (i) Any health care provider who administers any vaccine to a person nineteen years of age or older, [may] shall report[, with the consent of the vaccinee,] all such immunizations to the department in a format prescribed by the commissioner within fourteen days of administration of such immunizations. Health care providers administering immunizations to persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York [may] shall report[, with the consent of the vaccinee,] in a format prescribed by the city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all such immunizations to the citywide immunization registry. The reporting by a health care provider of administration of an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to a regional health information organization or other health information exchange shall satisfy the reporting requirements in this section if such data is provided by the regional health information organization or health information exchange to the department or citywide immunization registry.
(ii) A registered professional nurse, or a pharmacist who administers a vaccine pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of the education law, to a person nineteen years of age or older, shall report[, with the consent of the vaccinee,] all such immunizations to the department in a format prescribed by the commissioner within fourteen days of administration of such immunizations. Registered profes-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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sional nurses or pharmacists administering immunizations pursuant to subdivision two of section sixty-eight hundred one of the education law, to persons nineteen years of age or older in the city of New York shall report[, with the consent of the vaccinee,] in a format prescribed by the city of New York commissioner of health and mental hygiene, all such immunizations to the citywide immunization registry. The reporting by a registered professional nurse or a pharmacist of administration of an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to a regional health information organization or other health information exchange shall satisfy the reporting requirements in this section if such data is provided by the regional health information organization or health information exchange to the department or citywide immunization registry.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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