Bills and Legislation on COVID
Good Laws
S07268 – Prohibits a government entity from requiring individuals to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
A04269/S04376 – Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the coronavirus.
A7100 – Prohibits mandatory COVID-19 vaccination; limits civil liability of employers; prohibits requiring vaccination for education, employment, travel or other activities; enacts a vaccine bill of rights.
A04602 – Prohibits mandatory immunization against the coronavirus; prohibits requiring immunization for attendance at school or day care, transportation, travel, entering public buildings, employment, nursing home residency or receiving government services; provides that no proof of vaccine shall be required or used; prohibits incentive for administering or receiving vaccination.
S06747 – Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 for children, incapacitated persons, or students or staff of employment institutions or day care facilities; prohibits requiring people to carry or present evidence of having received the COVID-19 vaccine.
S02677 – Provides a religious exemption from vaccination requirements for school attendance
A07042/S05157 – Establishes a claim for strict liability against the state for any injury caused by the administration of an immunization which is mandated by a state law and gives the court of claims the power and jurisdiction to hear such a claim.
A05236 – Requires health care providers and practitioners to provide patients with a list of ingredients contained in vaccines, the manufacturer product insert, the vaccines’ potential side effects and where to report vaccine-adverse events forty-eight hours prior to immunization.
S06541/A07326 – Restricts vaccine registry information from discovery and other process; requires the commissioner of health and the New York City commissioner of health and mental hygiene to develop regulations to protect patient vaccine information from disclosure.
Bad Laws
Assembly Bill A8378 – Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and supervise the execution of a program of immunization against COVID-19 for purposes of state aid to schools; requires immunization against COVID-19 for attendance at school.
Assembly Bill A416 – Relates to the removal of cases, contacts and carriers of communicable diseases who are potentially dangerous to the public health. Makes it possible for government to detain individuals/groups deemed public health risks in a facility for 3-5 days.
A03192/S03041 – Permits any child who is at least fourteen years of age to have administered to himself or herself, regardless of parental consent, certain immunizations required or recommended by law.
A00416 – To allow the governor or the appropriate health official to order the removal and detention of any person afflicted with a communicable disease in the event that there is a state of health emergency declared by the governor in relation to such disease.
A00279/S00075 – Requires a health care provider who administers an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to report such information to the department of health or to a regional health information organization unless such person objects to such reporting.
S04512/A07581 – Requires social media networks to provide and maintain mechanisms and policies for reporting vaccine misinformation on their platform.
A02081 – Directs the commissioner of health to mandate a COVID-19 vaccine for residential health care facilities and to prioritize the distribution of such vaccines to such facilities.
