New York Assembly Bill A01545 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1545 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring instruction on vaccine science in every middle school and every high school The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 805 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 805. Instruction in vaccine science. 1. Every middle school and 4 every high school shall include age-appropriate instruction on vaccine 5 science as an integral part of the required curriculum for health educa- 6 tion. 7 2. The commissioner shall prescribe such rules and regulations regard- 8 ing instruction on vaccine science as the commissioner may deem neces- 9 sary and desirable for the health and welfare of pupils and the communi- 10 ty, which shall include but not be limited to, instruction on the 11 history and development of vaccines, the effect of vaccines on the 12 immune system, diseases that are preventable by vaccines and the spread 13 of such diseases, and vaccine safety and testing. The contents may be 14 varied to meet the needs of particular school districts, or portions 15 thereof, and need not be uniform throughout the state, provided, howev- 16 er, that school districts shall utilize either the curriculum for 17 vaccine science instruction prescribed by the commissioner or a course 18 approved by the commissioner in accordance with criteria established by 19 the commissioner. 20 3. School authorities shall provide the needed facilities, time and 21 place for the instruction set forth in this section and shall provide 22 learning aids and curriculum resource materials which contribute to 23 effective teaching methods and learning in vaccine science. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding 25 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, 26 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 27 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 28 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05763-01-3