Bill Text - HB1367 (2018)

Removing tetanus from the law requiring certain immunizations.


Revision: Nov. 6, 2017, 3:16 p.m.

HB 1367 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2494

01/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1367

 

AN ACT removing tetanus from the law requiring certain immunizations.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Fraser, Belk. 1; Rep. Gould, Hills. 7; Rep. Hoell, Merr. 23

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill declares that children do not have to be immunized against tetanus.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2494

01/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT removing tetanus from the law requiring certain immunizations.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Communicable Disease; Immunization.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-a, I to read as follows:

I.  All parents or legal guardians shall have their children who are residing in this state immunized against certain diseases.  These diseases shall include, but not be limited to, diphtheria, mumps, pertussis, poliomyelitis, rubella, and rubeola[, and tetanus].  The commissioner shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A relative to other diseases which require immunization.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.