S 3020: Exempts private and parochial schools and day care centers from immunization requirements.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3020 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to exempting private and parochial schools and day care centers from immunization require- ments The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 2164 of the public 2 health law, as amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 a. The term "school" means and includes any public[, private or paro- 5 chial child caring center, day nursery, day care agency, nursery 6 school,] pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary, intermediate or 7 secondary school. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06923-01-5