But we need to keep on fighting hard for a couple more weeks until Albany goes home on June 6.
The main threat facing us right now in Albany is Senate Bill S1531 (Hoylman, D-Manhattan.) S1531 creates a mandatory adult vaccine database. A mandatory database is ESSENTIAL for vaccine passports like New York used against during COVID, and for enforcement of future adult vaccine mandates that Pharma makes no secret is a crucial part of their future growth and profitability plans.
S1531 changes the rules for the currently voluntary adult vaccine database so that your permission is no longer needed to record information about you. The Assembly already passed this bill (A7154) last spring, so we have to stop it in the State Senate.
The only reason for a database that records the vaccines people have had, and HAVE NOT received, is that at some point they intend to enforce compliance. Exactly like the State uses the childhood database to deny children access to school.
The adult database will provide the necessary information to enforce vaccine passports. It will be used to deny you the right to work, practice your profession, go to college, access healthcare, access public places, travel, and all the other insanely repressive measures they already used with COVID passports.
What else will New York do with your information? Who will the state allow access to the database? Who will they allow to buy your medical information? Why do these third parties want your information? What will these third parties do with your information? Will they re-sell it?
The question of who gets access to the data is so serious that the bill was already held up for two years because migrant activists were concerned that the database would be used by immigration enforcement agencies. The legislature took these concerns so seriously that they passed a bill that appears to prevent the State from sharing this data with federal immigration enforcement agencies.
TAKE ACTION
We need to start now contacting Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and the members of the Senate Health Committee and keep contacting them until we know this bill is dead!
Their names, numbers, email addresses, Twitter/X handles, Facebook pages, even fax numbers are below. Contact them.
If you have limited time focus on the Democrats.
Use the panel to the right to send a message to your State Senator expressing your opposition to S1531.
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Call your New York State Senator and politely but firmly ask that he or she oppose S1531 and mandatory adult vaccine databases. We need to have 32 out of the 63 State Senators opposed to block it. You can look up your State Senator here:
https://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator
Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Senate Majority leader
Legislative Office Building, Room 907
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: (518) 455-2585, District: (914) 423-4031
Fax: (518) 426-6811
https://www.facebook.com/andrea.stewartcousins
Twitter: @AndreaSCousins
Democrats on the Senate Health Committee
Gustavo Rivera, Chair, co-sponsor S762a,co-sponsor of S1531
Capitol Building, Room 502C
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-3395, District: (718) 933-2034
Fax: 518-426-6858
https://www.facebook.com/Hon.Gustavo.Rivera
Twitter: @NYSenatorRivera
Samra Brouk
Legislative Office Building, Room 812
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-2215, Albany: (518) 455-221
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorBrouk
Twitter: @SenatorBrouk
Simcha Felder
Legislative Office Building, Room 809
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: (518) 455-2754, District: (718) 253-2015
Fax: (518) 426-6931
felder@nysenate.gov
https://www.facebook.com/NYSenatorFelder
Twitter: @NYSenatorFelder
John Mannion
Legislative Office Building, Room 946
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-3511, District (315) 428-7632
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorJohnMannion
Twitter: @SenJohnMannion
Lea Webb
Legislative Office Building, Room 848
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-2170, District: (607) 773-8771
Fax: 518-426-6787
Twitter: @SenatorLeaWebb
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088761992504
Rachel May
Legislative Office Building, Room 803
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-2838, District: (315) 478-8745
https://www.facebook.com/RachelMayNY
Twitter: @RachelMayNY
Kevin Thomas
Legislative Office Building, Room 947
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: (518) 455-3260, District: (516) 739-1700
Fax: (518) 426-6783
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorKevinThomas
Twitter: @SenKevinThomas
Zellnor Myrie
Legislative Office Bldg.Room806
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-2410, District: (718) 284-4700
Fax: 518-426-6856
Twitter@SenatorMyrie
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMyrie
Julia Salazar, Co-sponsor S762a
State Capitol Building, Room 514
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-2177, District: (718) 573-1726
Fax: 518-426-6947
salazar@nysenate.gov
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorSalazar
Twitter: @SalazarSenate
Brad Hoylman, author of S1531,
Legislative Office Building, Room 310
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: (518) 455-2451, (518) 455-2451
Fax: (518) 426-6846
https://www.facebook.com/bradhoylman
Twitter: @bradhoylman
Republicans
Jake Ashby
Legislative Office Building, Room 517
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-2381, District: (518) 371-2751
Fax: 518-426-6985
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorJakeAshby
Patrick Gallivan
Legislative Office Building, Room 311
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-3471, District: 716-656-8544
Fax: 518-426-6949
https://www.facebook.com/Senatorgallivan
Twitter: @senatorgallivan
Jack Martins
Legislative Office Building, Room 608
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-2677: District: (516) 922-1811
Fax: 518-426-6720
Twitter: @SenatorMartins
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorJackMartins
Steven Rhoads
Legislative Office Building, Room 513
Albany, NY 12247
Phone: 518-455-3161, District: (516) 882-0630
Fax: 518-426-6963
Twitter: @SenatorRhoads
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorSteveRhoads
Dan Stec
Legislative Office Building, Room 408
Albany , NY 12247
stec@nysenate.gov
Phone: 518-455-2811, District: (518) 743-0968
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorDanStec
Twitter: @SenatorDanStec
Talking Points
Here are some talking points you can use on your phone calls.
- What is the need? There are no required vaccines for general population adults,
- Who else will the State share or sell your information to? What will they do with your information?
- S1531 violates every principle of medical privacy,
- S1531 violates physicians' duty of confidentiality,
- The database will be used to identify and punish people. That is exact purpose of a vaccine database. Today it may be COVID shots, it will be other injections in the future,
- This is another step to statewide vaccine passports,
- Opens the door to demanding all medical records, psychiatric, drugs, HIV and other STDs, contraceptive use, etc.,
- This is taxpayer subsidized marketing for drug companies,
- Immigrant rights advocates are concerned it will be used to track and locate undocumented people for deportation,
- This bill will disproportionately impact black and brown people who have the lowest rate of COVID vaccine uptake of any racial groups,
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