Bill Text: TX HB1124 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to claiming an exemption from required immunizations for public school students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-25 - Left pending in committee [HB1124 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1124-Introduced.html
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By: Krause | H.B. No. 1124 |
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relating to claiming an exemption from required immunizations for | ||
public school students. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 161.0041(d), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) The department shall develop a blank affidavit form to | ||
be used by a person claiming an exemption from a required | ||
immunization and make that form available on the department's | ||
Internet website and in all public schools [ |
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affidavit form shall contain a statement indicating that the person | ||
or, if a minor, the person's parent, managing conservator, or | ||
guardian understands the benefits and risks of immunizations and | ||
the benefits and risks of not being immunized. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 161.0041(c) and (e), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Department of State Health Services shall modify | ||
the existing affidavit form required by Section 161.0041, Health | ||
and Safety Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |