Bill Text: NH HB362 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting certain immunization requirements for noncommunicable diseases.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-19 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/16/2017; Chapter 137; Eff. 8/15/2017 [HB362 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB362-Introduced.html
HB 362 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0425
01/06
HOUSE BILL 362
AN ACT prohibiting certain immunization requirements for noncommunicable diseases.
SPONSORS: Rep. Fraser, Belk. 1; Rep. Gould, Hills. 7; Rep. Murphy, Hills. 7; Rep. W. Marsh, Carr. 8; Sen. Avard, Dist 12
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill declares that immunization/vaccine requirements shall not be established for diseases that are noncommunicable in a child care or school setting, including hepatitis B.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0425
01/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT prohibiting certain immunization requirements for noncommunicable diseases.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Communicable Disease; Child Immunization. Amend RSA 141-C:20-a by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
III. Nothing in this section shall require an immunization/vaccination requirement for diseases that are noncommunicable in a child care or school setting, including, but not limited to, hepatitis B.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
