S 10279 NY
Relates to the publication of immunization information
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Summary
This bill requires New York schools to annually report immunization compliance data to the Department of Health, including the number and percentage of students who are fully immunized, not fully immunized, or exempt from each required immunization series. The Department of Health must make this information publicly available on its website in a searchable database format that includes data for each individual school. The website must also include statewide analyses of immunization trends over time and identify schools, districts, and areas with immunization rates below ninety-five percent or that are otherwise vulnerable to disease outbreaks. The bill ensures that individual student and family identifying information is kept confidential and not linked to immunization status in any published information. The bill takes effect January 1, 2027.
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Relates to the publication of immunization information; requires schools to provide immunization information to the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to make immunization information, including rates of immunization, available on its website.
Sponsor (1)
- James Skoufis Democratic · primary
Action history (1)
- May 11, 2026 REFERRED TO HEALTH · upper
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S10279 Summary: BILL NO S10279   SAME AS No Same As   SPONSOR SKOUFIS   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §2164, add §2169-a, Pub Health L   Relates to the publication of immunization information; requires schools to provide immunization information to the commissioner of health; requires the department of health to make immunization information, including rates of immunization, available on its website.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
10279
IN SENATE
May 11, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 the publication of immunization information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 2164 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 401 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 11. Every school shall annually provide the commissioner, on forms 5 provided by the commissioner, a summary regarding compliance with the 6 provisions of this section. Nothing herein shall prevent a school 7 district from providing such forms to the commissioner on behalf of the 8 schools within its district. Such summary shall identify, at minimum: 9 a. for each individual immunization series required by this section, 10 the number and percentage of children admitted to the school that are: 11 (i) fully immunized; 12 (ii) not fully immunized; and 13 (iii) exempt, pursuant to subdivision eight of this section, from such 14 immunization series; 15 b. the overall number and percentage of children admitted to the 16 school that are: 17 (i) fully immunized for all immunization series required by this 18 section; 19 (ii) not fully immunized for one or more immunization series required 20 by this section; and 21 (iii) exempt, pursuant to subdivision eight of this section, from one 22 or more immunization series required by this section; and 23 c. any other information the commissioner shall require. 24 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2169-a 25 to read as follows: 26 § 2169-a. Publication of immunization information. 1. The department 27 shall prominently make available on its website information regarding 28 compliance with the requirements of section twenty-one hundred sixty-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01720-03-6
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1 four of this title by schools in this state, including, but not limited 2 to: 3 (a) a searchable database of information regarding each school's 4 compliance with the requirements of section twenty-one hundred sixty- 5 four of this title, including, but not limited to the information 6 contained in the summary of compliance required pursuant to subdivision 7 eleven of section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this title; 8 (b) for each individual immunization series required by section twen- 9 ty-one hundred sixty-four of this title, the number and percentage of 10 children admitted to a school in this state that are: 11 (i) fully immunized; 12 (ii) not fully immunized; and 13 (iii) exempt, pursuant to subdivision eight of such section, from such 14 immunization series; 15 (c) the overall number and percentage of children admitted to a school 16 in this state that are: 17 (i) fully immunized for all immunization series required by section 18 twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this title; 19 (ii) not fully immunized for one or more immunization series required 20 by section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this title; and 21 (iii) exempt, pursuant to subdivision eight of section twenty-one 22 hundred sixty-four of this title, from one or more immunization series 23 required by such section; 24 (d) an analysis of statewide trends in immunization rates and 25 exemptions over time; 26 (e) an analysis identifying particular schools, school districts, 27 and/or areas of the state which have an immunization rate of less than 28 ninety-five percent, or are otherwise vulnerable to the spread of commu- 29 nicable diseases; and 30 (f) any other information the department judges to be pertinent or 31 necessary. 32 2. For the purposes of complying with the provisions of subdivision 33 one of this section, the department shall ensure that the confidentiali- 34 ty of individual identifying information is appropriately protected, and 35 shall not publish such information in a manner that allows such informa- 36 tion to be linked to an individual child, parent, guardian, or person in 37 parental relationship to a child. 38 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027.
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