Bill Text: TX HB2874 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to providing information regarding immunization requirements for admission to public elementary and secondary schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Referred to Public Education [HB2874 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2874-Introduced.html
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By: Schaefer | H.B. No. 2874 |
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relating to providing information regarding immunization | ||
requirements for admission to public elementary and secondary | ||
schools. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 38.019, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsections (a) and (a-1) and adding Subsections (c) and | ||
(d) to read as follows: | ||
(a) A school district that maintains an Internet website | ||
shall post prominently on the website: | ||
(1) a list, in English and Spanish, of: | ||
(A) the immunizations required for admission to | ||
public school by rules of the Department of State Health Services | ||
adopted under Section 38.001; | ||
(B) any immunizations or vaccines recommended | ||
for public school students by the Department of State Health | ||
Services; and | ||
(C) health clinics in the district that offer the | ||
influenza vaccine, to the extent those clinics are known to the | ||
district; and | ||
(2) a direct link to the Department of State Health | ||
Services Internet website where a person may obtain information on | ||
exemptions from immunizations required for admission to an | ||
elementary or secondary school as provided by Section 38.001, | ||
including [ |
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from the immunization requirements [ |
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(a-1) The link to the Department of State Health Services | ||
Internet website provided under Subsection (a)(2) must be presented | ||
in the same manner, including the same font style and size, as the | ||
information provided under Subsection (a)(1). | ||
(c) If a school district provides written notice or other | ||
written information relating to immunizations required for | ||
admission to an elementary or secondary school as provided by | ||
Section 38.001, the district shall include: | ||
(1) specific information on exemptions from the | ||
required immunizations; and | ||
(2) the direct link to the Department of State Health | ||
Services Internet website described by Subsection (a)(2). | ||
(d) The information provided under Subsections (c)(1) and | ||
(2) must be presented in the same manner, including the same font | ||
style and size, as the other information provided on immunizations. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
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, 2017. |