Bill Text - HB1213 (2024)

(New Title) relative to immunization requirements for child care agencies.


Revision: Oct. 17, 2023, 9:50 a.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2423.0

05/08

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to allowing child care centers to opt out of the vaccine information collection requirement.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that child care agencies shall not be required to document whether children enrolled in the program are immunized.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2423.0

05/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to allowing child care centers to opt out of the vaccine information collection requirement.

 

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

 

1  Immunization; Optional for Child Care Agency.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-a, II to read as follows:

II.  No child shall be admitted or enrolled in any school [or child care agency], public or private, unless the following is demonstrated:

(a)  Immunization under paragraph I;

(b)  Partial immunization relative to the age of the child as specified in rules adopted by the commissioner; or

(c)  Exemption under RSA 141-C:20-c.

II-a.  A child care agency may, but is not required, to comply with the immunization requirements of paragraph II.

2  Records.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-b, II to read as follows:

II.  Schools [and child care agencies] shall keep immunization records for all enrolled children. Such records shall be available for inspection during reasonable hours upon request by the commissioner or [his] the commissioner's designee.  

3  Immunization Reports.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-e to read as follows:

141-C:20-e  Immunization Reports.  Schools [and child care agencies], whether public or private, shall make an annual report to the commissioner relative to the status of immunization of all enrolled children.

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