Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz, the author of the repeal of the religious exemption from vaccine mandates to attend school, and Sen. James Skoufis (the Brad Hoylman wanna-be) are trying to do more favors for the vaccine industry with S3958a/A3254a, a bill that will require children who attend summer camp to be up-to-date with the required vaccine schedule. This is just another authoritarian bill that undermines parental rights, religious rights, and the authority of physicians to treat patients, for no discernible public health benefit, and further bolsters the Democrats' position as puppets of the vaccine cartel. 

This bill has already passed in the Assembly so we will have to stop it in the State Senate. 

 

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Is there any need for this bill? Are there demonstrable outbreaks in summer camps? 

Only one other state, California, requires all campers to be up-to-date with the school schedule.

This bill just adds to the needless and unjust discrimination against people with religious beliefs that preclude some or all vaccinations since New York became in 2019 one of only 5 states that do not allow religious exemptions in 2019.

Medical exemptions are technically allowed in New York, but they are nearly impossible to get, as shown by New York having the lowest rate of medical exemptions of any state, according to CDC. 

This bill would also place a considerable administrative burden on camps.