Bill Text: TX HB1586 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from required immunizations for school enrollment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-11 - Filed [HB1586 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1586-Introduced.html
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By: Hull | H.B. No. 1586 |
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relating to an exemption from required immunizations for school | ||
enrollment. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 161.0041(c), (d), and (e), Health and | ||
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The department shall develop a blank affidavit form for | ||
a person to use in claiming an exemption from a required | ||
immunization under this section and post the affidavit form in a | ||
printable format on the department's Internet website. A person | ||
claiming an exemption from a required immunization [ |
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written request for the affidavit form to the department. A person | ||
may not be required to provide any information to obtain a blank | ||
affidavit form under this subsection. | ||
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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. | ||
(e) The department may [ |
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total number of times an affidavit form was accessed on the | ||
department's Internet website or requested under Subsection (c) | ||
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any personally identifying information [ |
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who download, access, request, or submit an affidavit form under | ||
this section. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than the 30th day 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 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2025. |