New York S 5340: Allows medical assistants to administer vaccines

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S05340 Summary:

BILL NOS05340C

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SAME ASSAME AS A05460-D

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SPONSORSTAVISKY

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COSPNSRJACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §6526, Ed L; add §2113, Pub Health L

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Allows medical assistants to administer vaccines while under appropriate supervision of a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant.

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BILL NOS05340C

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02/20/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

03/25/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

03/25/2025PRINT NUMBER 5340A

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1016

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/06/2025PASSED SENATE

06/06/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/06/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

02/04/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HIGHER EDUCATION

02/04/2026PRINT NUMBER 5340B

02/10/20261ST REPORT CAL.311

02/11/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/24/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/04/2026PASSED SENATE

03/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/04/2026referred to higher education

04/01/2026RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY

04/01/2026returned to senate

04/01/2026VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING

04/01/2026AMENDED ON THIRD READING 5340C

04/20/2026REPASSED SENATE

04/20/2026RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

04/20/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5340--C
 Cal. No. 311

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
 and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
 Higher Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
 to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by
 Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered,
 restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
 its place in the order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
 to the administration of immunizations by medical assistants

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

 1 Section 1. Section 6526 of the education law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
 3 11. Any medical assistant when drawing and administering an immuniza-
 4 tion in an outpatient office setting under the direct supervision of a
 5 physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant. For the purposes
 6 of this subdivision, a medical assistant is an unlicensed direct-care
 7 employee who is at least eighteen years of age, has completed an educa-
 8 tional pathway acceptable to the department, and that performs clerical,
 9 administrative, and clinical tasks as set forth in department guidelines
 10 and as authorized by section twenty-one hundred thirteen of the public
 11 health law and pursuant to subdivision twenty-five of section sixty-five
 12 hundred thirty of this article.
 13 § 2. Section 6526 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 14 subdivision 12 to read as follows:
 15 12. A certified nurse practitioner may delegate the task of drawing up
 16 and administering vaccinations to a medical assistant as defined in

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09017-09-6

 S. 5340--C 2

 1 subdivision eleven of this section in outpatient office settings pursu-
 2 ant to section twenty-one hundred thirteen of the public health law,
 3 provided that it shall be professional misconduct to delegate profes-
 4 sional responsibilities to a person when the licensee delegating such
 5 responsibilities knows or has reason to know that such person is not
 6 qualified, by training or by experience to perform them.
 7 § 3. The public health law is a