Bill Text: HI HB1818 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: University of Hawaii; Health Clearance
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Referred to HLT, HED, FIN, referral sheet 2 [HB1818 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB1818-Introduced.html
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that approximately four thousand incoming students are unable to enroll at the University of Hawaii because they do not submit health clearance forms, which require students to provide documentation of immunization for measles, mumps, and rubella.
The legislature also finds that section 302A-1154, Hawaii Revised States, prohibits a child from attending any grade school in the State unless the child presents official documentation that the child has received immunizations against communicable diseases, as required by the department of health.
The legislature further finds that pursuant to section 11-157-3, Hawaii Administrative Rules, students in Hawaii grade schools are required to provide schools with documentation of immunization from measles, mumps, and rubella.
The legislature believes that students who have graduated from a high school located in the State may reasonably be presumed to be immune from measles, mumps, and rubella. The legislature therefore finds that it is inefficient and unduly burdensome to require a student who has graduated from a high school in the State to provide documentation of immunization for measles, mumps, or rubella to the University of Hawaii.
The purpose of this Act is to allow the University of Hawaii to enroll a student without documentation of immunization for measles, mumps, or rubella if the student pursuing enrollment graduated from a high school within the State.
SECTION 2. Chapter 304A, part II, subpart F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"F. [CONTINUING
EDUCATION] ENROLLMENT
[[]§304A-901[]] [Tuberculosis]
Health clearance [certification; exemption.] provisions;
exemptions. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, [a person]
the University of Hawaii, with regard to students wishing to enroll [at
a campus] within the [University of Hawaii] university system
[solely to participate in a noncredit, short-term course, lasting less than
fifteen days, shall]:
(1) Shall not [be required] require
any student to present, as a condition to enrollment or otherwise, a tuberculosis
clearance certification[.] if the student is enrolling solely to
participate in a noncredit, short-term course, lasting less than fifteen days; and
(2) May enroll any student who does not present documentation of immunization for measles, mumps, and rubella if the student graduated from a high school within the State."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that this Act shall apply to persons admitted for enrollment to the University of Hawaii for a semester beginning in the fall of 2016 and thereafter.
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Report Title:
University of Hawaii; Health Clearance
Description:
Authorizes the University of Hawaii to enroll a student who fails to provide documentation of immunization for measles, mumps, and rubella if the student graduated from a high school within the State.
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