Senate Bill S8334

                             
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                                  8334--A
     Cal. No. 301
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 3, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to
   the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
   reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second
   report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
   retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance  law  and  the  social  services  law,  in
   relation  to  insurance reimbursement for vaccination for severe acute
   respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Clause  (iii)  of  subparagraph  (B)  of  paragraph 17 of
 subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as amended by chap-
 ter 219 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii) necessary immunizations, as determined by the superintendent  in
 consultation  with  the  commissioner  of health, consisting of at least
 adequate dosages of vaccine against diphtheria, pertussis, SEVERE  ACUTE
 RESPIRATORY  SYNDROME  CORONAVIRUS  2, tetanus, polio, measles, rubella,
 mumps, haemophilus influenzae type b and hepatitis  b,  which  meet  the
 standards  approved  by the United States public health service for such
 biological products.
   § 2. Clause (iii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph 8 of subsection (l)
 of section 3221 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 219  of  the
 laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii)  necessary immunizations, as determined by the superintendent in
 consultation with the commissioner of health,  consisting  of  at  least
 adequate  dosages of vaccine against diphtheria, pertussis, SEVERE ACUTE
 RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2, tetanus,  polio,  measles,  rubella,
 mumps,  haemophilus  influenzae  type  b and hepatitis b, which meet the
 standards approved by the United States public health service  for  such
 biological products.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   § 3. Subparagraph (C) of paragraph 2 of subsection (j) of section 4303
 of  the insurance law, as amended by chapter 219 of the laws of 2011, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (C)  necessary  immunizations,  as determined by the superintendent in
 consultation with the commissioner of health,  consisting  of  at  least
 adequate  dosages of vaccine against diphtheria, pertussis, SEVERE ACUTE
 RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2, tetanus,  polio,  measles,  rubella,
 mumps,  haemophilus  influenzae  type  b and hepatitis b, which meet the
 standards approved by the United States public health service  for  such
 biological products.
   §  4.  Paragraph  (v)  of subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social
 services law, as added by section 4 of part B of chapter 58 of the  laws
 of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   (v)  administration  of  vaccinations  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS
 ISSUED BY THE COMMISSIONER, UTILIZING GENERALLY ACCEPTED MEDICAL  STAND-
 ARDS AND TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ACAD-
 EMY OF PEDIATRICS, THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS, THE AMERI-
 CAN  COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS, THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF
 PHYSICIANS, THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES,  OR  OTHER
 SIMILAR  NATIONALLY  OR  INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZA-
 TIONS, CONSISTING OF  AT  LEAST  ADEQUATE  DOSAGES  OF  VACCINE  AGAINST
 DIPHTHERIA,  PERTUSSIS, SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2,
 TETANUS, POLIO, MEASLES, RUBELLA, MUMPS, HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE  TYPE  B
 AND  HEPATITIS B, in a pharmacy by a certified pharmacist within [his or
 her] THEIR scope of practice.
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January after it shall
 have become a law and shall apply to any contract entered  into,  deliv-
 ered, amended or modified on or after the date it takes effect.