Bill Text: TX HB175 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting a requirement that a public school student receive a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to Public Education [HB175 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB175-Introduced.html
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| By: Noble | H.B. No. 175 | |
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| relating to prohibiting a requirement that a public school student | ||
| receive a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 38.001(b), Education Code, as amended by | ||
| Chapters 43 (H.B. 1098) and 94 (H.B. 1059), Acts of the 80th | ||
| Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is reenacted and amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (b) Subject to Subsections (b-1), (b-2), and (c), the | ||
| executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission | ||
| may modify or delete any of the immunizations in Subsection (a) or | ||
| may require immunizations against additional diseases as a | ||
| requirement for admission to any elementary or secondary school. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 38.001, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (b-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-2) A student may not be required, as a condition of the | ||
| student's admission to or continued enrollment in any elementary or | ||
| secondary school, to receive a vaccine for the coronavirus disease | ||
| (COVID-19). An elementary or secondary school is not liable for a | ||
| claim arising from exposure to COVID-19 on the basis that the school | ||
| failed to require a student to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
