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Relating to communicable and infectious diseases, including elimination of specified immunization and vaccination requirements for enrollment in licensed child care centers or elementary and secondary schools, and requiring communication of the risks and recommendations relating to such diseases and immunizations and vaccinations
Topics:K–12 educationHealth careFamilies & human servicesChild care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 17, 2024
- 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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa would no longer require children to get specific vaccinations before enrolling in licensed child care centers or schools. Instead, the Department of Health and Human Services would provide information about disease risks and immunization recommendations to schools and parents. This change also removes the requirement for the COVID-19 vaccine for students.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to communicable and infectious diseases, including elimination of required immunizations and vaccinations prior to enrollment in licensed child care centers or elementary or secondary schools in Iowa.8, which provides that a person shall not be required to receive any specific immunization prior to enrollment in any licensed child care center or elementary or secondary school in Iowa. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to provide information regarding the risks of communicable and infectious diseases and recommendations regarding immunizations, to licensed child care centers, school districts, and local boards to be shared with the parents or legal guardians of minor children enrolled in licensed child care centers or elementary or secondary schools in Iowa. The bill directs HHS, in consultation with the director of the department of education, to adopt rules to administer this Code section provision and to provide the rules to licensed child care centers, school districts, and local boards. The bill makes conforming changes in the Code to reflect the changes regarding required immunizations.8B(1) that prohibits required immunization for COVID-19 for a person enrolling in any licensed child care center, elementary or secondary school, or postsecondary school in Iowa prior to July 1, 2029, by eliminating the date certain, thereby prohibiting the requirement.77(1)(d)(28) relating to the powers, privileges, rights, or duties provided by rule regarding physician assistants to eliminate the references to the documentation for required immunizations for children in foster care and instead references documentation of current immunizations.8, and instead requires that HHS provide information regarding immunizations to participants.8 in the context of reports regarding children placed in private instruction.