Virginia Senate Bill 587 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2022 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2022-02-10 - Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Powers of State Health Commissioner in epidemic; vaccine; religious tenets or practices. Allows a parent or guardian to object to the vaccination or immunization of a child on the grounds that the administration of immunizing agents conflicts with his religious tenets or practices, even if an emergency or epidemic of disease has been declared by the State Board of Health, which is not allowed under current law. The bill also provides that nothing shall preclude the State Health Commissioner from requiring immediate immunization of all persons in the case of an epidemic of any disease of public health importance for which a vaccine exists other than a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects on the grounds that the administration of the vaccine conflicts with his religious tenets or practices. Under current law, the only exception to the Commissioner's power to require immediate immunization of all persons in case of an epidemic of any disease of public health importance for which a vaccine exists is for a person to whose health the administration of a vaccine would be detrimental as certified in writing by a physician licensed to practice medicine in the Commonwealth.

State Health Commissioner; powers in epidemic, religious tenets or practices.

Sen. Mark Peake [R]

2022-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N) (Y: 7 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-10	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Education and Health (7-Y 8-N)
2022-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2022-01-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102195D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	46	(n/a)	See Bill Text
32	1	48	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB587
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB587+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB587F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S04V0164+SB0587