Bill Text: TX HB1816 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the vaccination against bacterial meningitis of first-time students at public and private or independent institutions of higher education.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1816 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1816-Comm_Sub.html

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82R9026 KSD-F
By: Howard of Fort Bend, Reynolds, Cook, H.B. No. 1816
et al.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the vaccination against bacterial meningitis of
first-time students at public and private or independent
institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 51.9192(b), (c), and (e), Education
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) This section applies only to a first-time student of an
institution of higher education or private or independent
institution of higher education, including a transfer student[, who
resides in, or has applied for on-campus housing and been approved
to reside in, an on-campus dormitory or other on-campus student
housing facility at the institution].
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a student to whom
this section applies or a parent or guardian of the student must
provide to the institution, at the time and in the manner prescribed
by rules adopted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board,
a certificate signed by a health practitioner evidencing that the
student has received a [been vaccinated against] bacterial
meningitis vaccination dose or booster during the five-year period
preceding the date established by the coordinating board under
Subsection (e).
(e) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in
consultation with institutions of higher education and private or
independent institutions of higher education, shall adopt rules for
the administration of this section, including rules establishing
the date by which a student who is required to comply with
Subsection (c) must have received the vaccination required by that
subsection, which may not be later than the 10th day before the
first day of the semester or other term in which the student
initially enrolls [the date the student initially moves into an
on-campus dormitory or other on-campus student housing facility at
an institution].
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
51.9192, Education Code, apply only to first-time students
enrolling in public or private or independent institutions of
higher education in this state on or after January 1, 2012.
SECTION 3. 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, 2011.