New York S 3958: Relates to requiring children enrolled in an overnight camp, children's summer day camp, or travelling summer day camp to be vaccinated

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S03958 Summary:

BILL NOS03958A

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SAME ASSAME AS A03254-A

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRHARCKHAM

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1394, Pub Health L

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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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BILL NOS03958A

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01/31/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

04/27/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

04/27/2026PRINT NUMBER 3958A

05/12/20261ST REPORT CAL.1092

05/13/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/14/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/19/2026SUBSTITUTED BY A3254A

&nbspA03254 AMEND=A Dinowitz

&nbsp01/27/2025referred to health

&nbsp01/07/2026referred to health

&nbsp04/17/2026amend (t) and recommit to health

&nbsp04/17/2026print number 3254a

&nbsp04/21/2026reported referred to rules

&nbsp04/21/2026reported 

&nbsp04/21/2026rules report cal.98

&nbsp04/21/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.98

&nbsp04/28/2026passed assembly

&nbsp04/28/2026delivered to senate

&nbsp04/28/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

&nbsp05/19/2026SUBSTITUTED FOR S3958A

&nbsp05/19/20263RD READING CAL.1092

&nbsp05/19/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/19/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

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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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