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Prohibiting the required immunization of children prior to enrollment in a licensed child care center or elementary or secondary school in Iowa and providing for a repeal
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 27, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill provides that a parent or legal guardian shall not be required to assure that the person’s minor children residing in the state are adequately immunized against certain diseases. Additionally, a person shall not be required to provide evidence of adequate immunization against certain diseases to be enrolled in any licensed child care center or elementary or secondary school in Iowa.8 (immunization of children) which requires a parent or legal guardian to assure that the person’s minor children residing in the state are adequately immunized against certain diseases and prohibits a person from being enrolled in any licensed child care center or elementary or secondary school in Iowa without evidence of adequate immunizations against certain diseases.
Read the full explanation
The Code section also authorizes the state board of health to modify or delete any of the required immunizations, provides exemptions from immunization, provides provisional enrollment in an elementary or secondary school or licensed child care center, specifies the duties of local boards of health in furnishing the department of public health with evidence of vaccination of each person enrolled in any elementary or secondary school, requires local boards of health to provide the required immunizations to children in areas where no local provision of these services exists, and provides for adoption of administrative rules to implement the Code section.8.