Bill Text: TX HB2902 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to studies and reports on immunization exemptions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Referred to Public Health [HB2902 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2902-Introduced.html
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| By: Davis of Harris | H.B. No. 2902 | |
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| relating to studies and reports on immunization exemptions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 38.0028 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 38.0028. IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTIONS AND VACCINE | ||
| PREVENTABLE DISEASE OUTBREAKS; REPORTING. (a) The Department of | ||
| State Health Services, using the required annual report submitted | ||
| by all schools under Section 38.002(c) and any other relevant | ||
| resources, shall create a biennial report on vaccination exemptions | ||
| and any outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases. | ||
| (b) The department shall make the report described by | ||
| Subsection (a) available on the department's Internet website not | ||
| later than December 1 of each even-numbered year. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Department of State Health Services shall | ||
| post the initial report required by Section 38.0028, Education | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, not later than December 1, 2016. | ||
| 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 September 1, 2015. | ||
