Bill Text - HB539 (2023)

Relative to vaccination clinics at schools.


Revision: Dec. 22, 2022, 4:48 p.m.

 

2023 SESSION

23-0611.0

04/05

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to vaccination clinics at schools.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits a public elementary or secondary school from conducting a vaccination clinic during school hours.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0611.0

04/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to vaccination clinics at schools.

 

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

 

1  New Subdivision; School Vaccination Clinics.  Amend RSA 200 by inserting after section 63 the following new subdivision:

School Vaccination Clinics

200:64  School Vaccination Clinics.  

I.  No public elementary or secondary school or chartered public school shall conduct a vaccination clinic at any time during school hours, or within 2 hours of the beginning or end of the school day.

II.  A parent or guardian of the child shall accompany and be present with their child in order for a child to be immunized at a vaccination clinic held in a public elementary or secondary school or chartered public school outside of the hours specified in paragraph I.  

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