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Home/Bills/A 1908New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 1908: Requires health care providers and practitioners to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines, the manufacturer product insert, the vaccines' potential side effects and where to report vaccine-adverse events forty-eight hours prior to immunization.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What A 1908 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill requires health care providers and practitioners to provide patients with certain information before administering vaccines. This information includes the safety, benefits, and risks of the vaccine, as well as potential side effects. The list of ingredients contained in each vaccine is also required, as well as information from the manufacturer and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Patients will also be informed on how to report any vaccine-related adverse events. The information must be provided at least 48 hours before administering the vaccine.

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Last action: referred to health (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to health
Jan. 14, 2025referred to health
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 14, 2025 · 332 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1908 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health care providers and practitioners to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines 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; requirements. 1. The commissioner 4 may promulgate regulations with respect to immunization conducted by a 5 home care services agency licensed pursuant to section thirty-six 6 hundred five of this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six 7 hundred eight of this chapter, facilities or institutions established 8 under article twenty-eight of this chapter, and other health care 9 providers and practitioners, including, but not limited to, standards 10 for the quality of care and services provided, consistent with the 11 education law. 12 2. Every health care provider or practitioner who administers immuni- 13 zations shall provide all the following information to the patient or a 14 person in parental relation to the patient forty-eight hours prior to 15 administering a vaccine: 16 a. The safety, benefits, risks and potential side effects of each 17 vaccine. 18 b. The list of ingredients contained in each vaccine as provided by 19 the manufacturer and the manufacturer product insert for each vaccine. 20 c. The United States centers for disease control and prevention's 21 vaccine excipient and media summary. 22 d. How and where to report a vaccine-adverse event. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05273-01-5 
Text of A 1908 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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