by Michael Kane, Childrens Health Defense:
This was the fourth consecutive year that activists in New York — with the support of Children’s Health Defense — prevented any vaccine-related bill from becoming codified into law.
New York lawmakers on June 10 ended the 2023 legislative session in Albany without passing any of the four pending vaccine-related bills.
This is the fourth consecutive year that grassroots efforts, including those undertaken by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), have prevented any new vaccine-related legislation from becoming codified into New York state law.
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The four bills pending before the legislature that did not move forward included legislation that would have allowed:
- S762A: Minors to be vaccinated without parental knowledge or consent.
- S1946: Tracking of medical exemptions.
- S1531: Mandatory tracking of all adult vaccinations.
- S7356: Dentists to administer COVID-19 and flu shots.
Additionally, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz permanently revoked two of his bills related to COVID-19 vaccination — one that would have required COVID-19 shots for children in grades K-12 to attend school, and one that would have required college students to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
These will not come back during the next legislative session, which is slated to begin in January 2024.
Nearly a dozen more bills related to vaccine mandates never moved an inch during the entire session.
The New York Assembly said it will hold a 2-day session before the end of June. However, the only legislation that would have any chance of getting passed during a summer session is S7356, the bill to allow dentists to administer COVID-19 AND flu shots.
The other bills would require the Senate to reconvene and, thus far, there is no indication this will happen.
Activists in New York have been battling these bills since January. On January 10, more than 1,000 activists led by CHD and CHD’s New York Chapter rallied at the Capitol in Albany.
Activists also scheduled meetings between New York residents and state lawmakers to educate the elected officials on the impacts of more than a dozen proposed bills related to vaccination.
Activists and constituents continued to meet with their lawmakers in their home districts in the months following the rally. They also made phone calls and sent emails to remind lawmakers of their position regarding vaccine-related bills.
It wasn’t until May 5 that vaccine-related legislation began to gain traction in the state legislature.
The minor consent to vaccination bill was scheduled for a vote in the Senate Health Committee on May 9. However, thousands of calls and emails from activists stopped the vote from happening. The vote was rescheduled for May 16 — the same date activists had scheduled a second rally in Albany.
When we arrived in Albany on May 16, we directed everyone to go right to the Health Committee hearing. Forty of our people were in the committee room to witness the vote, while another approximately 150 people waited in the hallway.
The debate over the minor consent bill came up first. People in the hallway began chanting “Protect parental rights” and “No!” which prompted Health Committee Chair Amy Paulin to have the door closed.
Activists working on behalf of CHD.TV filmed the vote, which was broadcast on CHD.TV and on CHD’s social media platforms:
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