S 4536: Requires immunization information systems to record data on the number of vaccine exemptions reported by each health care provider.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4536 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring immuni- zation information systems to record data on the number of vaccine exemptions reported by each health care provider The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 5 of section 2168 of the 2 public health law, as amended by chapter 35 of the laws of 2019, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (f) The immunization status of children exempt from immunizations 5 pursuant to subdivision eight of section twenty-one hundred sixty-four 6 of this title shall be reported by the health care provider. Such 7 reported information shall be entered into the statewide immunization 8 information system and the New York city health department's citywide 9 immunization registry by the department or, as appropriate, by the 10 department of health and mental hygiene for the city of New York, in a 11 manner that allows the commissioner and their designees to search and 12 access the number of exemptions reported by each individual health care 13 provider. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03195-01-5