New York children will not be required to take the COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend school in the fall. The New York State 2022 legislative session came to an end June 2 without passing this mandate or any new laws pertaining to vaccination.

Lawmakers proposed more than a dozen COVID-19-related bills during the 2022 session. They included proposals to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine and the flu vaccine, create a vaccine database and allow minors to consent to medical procedures without parental consent.

2022 marks the third year in a row that activists in New York have prevented new vaccine mandates from being codified into state law.

A massive grassroots campaign showed New York lawmakers how unpopular vaccine mandates are.

After Governor Kathy Hochul in December 2021 claimed a vaccine mandate for kids was inevitable in 2022, 4,000 activists rallied in front of the Albany capitol building on Jan. 5, the first day of the legislative session.