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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S03958 Summary: BILL NO S03958A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A03254-A

&nbsp SPONSOR SKOUFIS &nbsp COSPNSR HARCKHAM &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Amd §1394, Pub Health L &nbsp Requires children enrolled in an overnight camp, summer day camp, or travelling summer day camp to be vaccinated against a specified list of diseases.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

3958--A

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

January 31, 2025 ___________

Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring children enrolled in an overnight camp, summer day camp, or travelling summer day camp to be vaccinated

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. Section 1394 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 two new subdivisions 6-a and 6-b to read as follows: 3 6-a. Each children's overnight camp, summer day camp, and travelling 4 summer day camp shall ensure that every child enrolled at such camp has 5 been administered an adequate dose or doses of all immunizing agents 6 pursuant to section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this chapter and in 7 accordance with regulations issued by the commissioner, utilizing 8 generally accepted medical standards and taking into consideration 9 recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American 10 Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Obstetri- 11 cians and Gynecologists, the American College of Physicians, the Advi- 12 sory Committee on Immunization Practices, and/or other similar 13 nationally or internationally recognized scientific organizations. 14 6-b. Each camp operator shall keep a current certificate of immune 15 history, documentation of additional evidence of immunity, or documenta- 16 tion of a valid medical exemption for each child attending the camp. A 17 camp operator may permit a camper who is in the process of receiving a 18 vaccine series to attend camp. Records shall be kept for sixty days 19 after the close of the camp's operating season. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeed- 21 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06996-03-6

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