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March 21, 2022

NY Take Action: Statewide adult vaccination mandatory database is back, Get on the phone

NY Take Action: Statewide adult vaccination mandatory database is back

Albany wants your vaccine records, and the vaccine records of every adult in New York. Senate Bill S75a, introduced by State Sen. Brad Hoylman,  would require recording every vaccine given to an adult in a New York State database. The bill sat in the legislature for years but began moving last session when it passed in both Health Committees. It was amended in the Rules Committees, the last stop before going to the floor for a vote. It is now back in the Health Committees for consideration of the amended version.

The amended version of the bill is not as bad as the original but is still unacceptable. The bill requires physicians and other healthcare providers to register in the state database every shot given. The original bill also eliminated patients’ right to refuse to have their data recorded. In the current version, a physician is not supposed to record the information IF a patient affirmatively tells the physician not to, but the physician is under no obligation to ask.

The database is an essential part of any system to force adults to get vaccines, and to make possible vaccine passports and systems of vaccine-based segregation. Precisely identifying noncompliant adults will be necessary for any tracking system. It is also an essential tool to achieve the growth goals of the global vaccine industry, which is based on expanding the adult market given the low growth prospects of the saturated infant and childhood markets.

The bill did not go forward in the last session because of concerns that the database could be used to identify and locate illegal immigrants for enforcement action. In the hyper race conscious current environment in Albany none of the non-white members of the Assembly Health Committee voted for the bill. And immigration advocates expressed opposition to the database bill. As a consequence, another bill, S6541(Rivera)/A7326(Gottfried), was proposed to address the concerns about using the database to enforce immigration laws. Claims are made that S6541/A7326 will prevent the use of the database for immigration enforcement, but our attorneys have found no language in the bill that would prevent the Department of Health from providing information from the database to federal immigration authorities. Nor could a state law stop federal agencies from securing state data to enforce federal immigration laws. Federal law trumps state law. We believe S6541/A7326 is a ruse to placate advocates and members of the legislature to allow the database bill to move forward. When you make calls to legislators it is important to bring up the fact that the database could be used to locate illegal immigrants and the bill that is supposed to take care of that problem s6541/A7326 simply does not do what is claimed.

Please click here: Oppose S75A/A279a No mandatory database for adult vaccination records to send email messages to the leadership of the Senate and to your own State Senator and Assemblymember.

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Please call every member of the Senate Health Committee listed below. Call their District and Albany offices.  Politely let them know you oppose the bill for the reasons below.

Here are some talking points you can use.

  • What is the need? There are no required vaccines for general population adults.
  • Violates every principle of medical privacy.
  • Violates physician’s duty of confidentiality.
  • Will be used to identify and punish people. It is Covid now, it will be other disorders in the future.
  • This is the first step to statewide vaccine passports
  • Opens the door to government demanding all medical records, psychiatric medicines, STDs, contraceptive use, etc.
  • This is taxpayer subsidized marketing for drug companies
  • Immigrant rights advocates concerned it will be used to track and locate undocumented people
  • This bill will disproportionately impact black and brown people who have the lowest rate of Covid vaccine uptake of any racial groups
  • S6541/A7326 will not prevent alleviate the concerns that the database can be used to locate people for immigration enforcement.

 

Please call:

 

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Albany: (518) 455-2585, District: (914) 423-4031

https://www.facebook.com/andrea.stewartcousins

Twitter: @AndreaSCousins

 

Call every member of the Senate Health Committee:

Democrats:

 

Health Committee Chair Gustavo Rivera,

Albany: (518) 455-3395,  District: (718) 933-2034

https://www.facebook.com/Hon.Gustavo.Rivera

Twitter: @NYSenatorRivera

 

Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, District: (718) 822-2049, Albany: 518-455-3595

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorBiaggi

Twitter: @SenatorBiaggi

 

Sen. Kevin Thomas, District: (516) 739-1700, Albany; (518) 455-3260

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorKevinThomas

Twitter: @SenKevinThomas

 

Sen. Rachel May, District: (315) 478-8745, Albany: (518) 455-2838

https://www.facebook.com/RachelMayNY

Twitter: @RachelMayNY

 

Sen. Julia Salazar, District: District, (718) 573-1726 Albany: 518-455-2177

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorSalazar

Twitter: @SalazarSenate

 

Sen. Todd Kaminsky, District: 516-766-8383, Albany: 518-455-3401

https://www.facebook.com/senatorkaminsky

Twitter: @Toddkaminsky

 

Sen. Samra Brouk, District: (585) 223-1800, Albany: (518) 455-2215

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorBrouk

Twitter: @SenatorBrouk

 

Sen. Cordell Cleare, (518) 455-2441, (212) 222-7315

https://www.facebook.com/ https://CordellCleare

Twitter: @CordellCleare

 

Sen. Brad Hoylman, District: (212) 633-8052, Albany: (518) 455-2451

https://www.facebook.com/bradhoylman

Twitter: @bradhoylman

 

Sen. Sean Ryan, District: (716) 854-8705, Albany: (518) 455-3240

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorSeanRyan

Twitter: @SenSeanRyan

 

 

Republicans:

 

Sen. Phil Boyle, District: (631) 665-2311, Albany (518) 455-3411

https://www.facebook.com/philboyleNY

@PhilBoyleNY

 

Sen. Peter Oberacker, District: (607) 432-5524, (518) 455-3131

https://www.facebook.com/Peter4Senate51

Twitter: @SenOberacker

 

Sen. Ed Rath,  District: (716) 631-8695, (585) 454-0322, Albany: (518) 455-3161

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorEdRath

Twitter: @EdRath

 

Sen. Patrick Gallivan, District: 716-656-8544, Albany: 518-455-3471,

https://www.facebook.com/Senatorgallivan

Twitter: @senatorgallivan

 

Sen. Dan Stec, District: (518) 743-0968, Albany: (518) 455-2811

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorDanStec

@SenatorDanStec

 

Sen. Brad Hoylman, the author of S75a, is  also the author of the bill that repealed the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school. He also sponsored bills to mandate HPV and annual flu shots to attend school, and a bill that would require college students to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

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