New York A 2297: Relates to adding fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability

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A02297 Summary:

BILL NOA02297 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORMcDonald (MS)

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COSPNSRLupardo, Gallahan, Otis, Buttenschon, Miller, Santabarbara, Kelles, Dinowitz, Sayegh, Stirpe, Simon

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MLTSPNSRAngelino

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Add §3005-c, amd §2168, Pub Health L; amd §§6527 & 6909, Ed L

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Authorizes emergency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency medical services director after receiving appropriate training; authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical technician to administer certain vaccines; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

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BILL NOA02297 

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01/16/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2297

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 16, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, LUPARDO, GALLAHAN, OTIS, BUTTENSCHON,
 MILLER, SANTABARBARA, KELLES, DINOWITZ, SAYEGH, STIRPE, SIMON --
 Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing emer-
 gency medical technicians to administer certain vaccines pursuant to
 non-patient specific orders and under the authority of an emergency
 medical services director; to amend the education law, in relation to
 authorizing physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe
 and order a non-patient specific order to an emergency medical techni-
 cian to administer certain vaccines; and providing for the repeal of
 such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 3005-c to read as follows:
 3 § 3005-c. Vaccination by emergency medical technicians. 1. Emergency
 4 medical technicians may, pursuant to a non-patient specific order under
 5 sections sixty-nine hundred nine and sixty-five hundred twenty-seven of
 6 the education law and under the authority of an emergency medical
 7 services director while overseen or approved by the department of health
 8 or local health departments and operated under the medical supervision
 9 of licensed physicians, licensed physician assistants, or certified
 10 nurse practitioners administer immunizations to prevent influenza to
 11 persons two years of age or older, and administer immunizations to
 12 prevent COVID-19 to persons eighteen years of age or older, provided
 13 that such individuals first receive training in the following areas, as
 14 determined by the commissioner after consultation with the commissioner
 15 of education:
 16 (a) techniques, indications, precautions, contraindications, infection
 17 control practices;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01546-01-5

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 1 (b) use of personal protective equipment sufficient to provide the
 2 basic level of competence for such tasks; and
 3 (c) a current certificate in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
 4 which at a minimum must include a certification in basic cardiopulmonary
 5 resuscitation by an online program that has received accreditation from
 6 the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the Accreditation Council for
 7 Pharmacy Education (ACPE), or the Accreditation Council for Continuing
 8 Medical Education.
 9 2. When an emergency medical technician administers an immunization to
 10 prevent influenza or COVID-19, they shall:
 11 (a) report such administration to the department of health either
 12 through the statewide immunization information system or the citywide
 13 immunization registry under section twenty-one hundred sixty-eight of
 14 this chapter; and
 15 (b) prior to administering the immunization, inform the patient or,
 16 where applicable, the person legally responsible for the pa