Senate Bill sb0660
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Florida Senate - 2007 SB 660
By Senators Fasano and King
11-437-07
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the human papillomavirus;
3 requiring public and private middle schools in
4 the state to provide to certain students and
5 their parents or guardians information
6 concerning the human papillomavirus, its
7 vaccine, and cervical cancer; prohibiting
8 certain students from admission into school
9 without providing evidence of vaccination for
10 the human papillomavirus; providing an
11 exception; prohibiting a principal from
12 knowingly admitting a student into school
13 without evidence of vaccination for the human
14 papillomavirus; providing an exception;
15 requiring the Department of Education, in
16 consultation with the Department of Health, to
17 prescribe the content of the information
18 regarding the connection between the human
19 papillomavirus and cervical cancer and the
20 availability of a vaccine preventing human
21 papillomavirus; providing an effective date.
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23 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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25 Section 1. (1) Beginning with the 2008-2009 school
26 year, each public or private middle school in this state shall
27 provide to each student who is 11 years of age or 12 years of
28 age and to the parents or guardian of such student information
29 concerning the connection between the human papillomavirus
30 (HPV) and cervical cancer and the availability of a vaccine
31 preventing human papillomavirus.
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Florida Senate - 2007 SB 660
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1 (2) Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year:
2 (a) A student who is 11 years of age or 12 years of
3 age may not be admitted to any private or public school in
4 this state until that student submits to the school acceptable
5 evidence of vaccination for the human papillomavirus or proof
6 that, after receiving the information required in subsection
7 (1), the student's parent or guardian has elected that the
8 student not receive the vaccine.
9 (b) A principal or any other person in charge of a
10 public or private school may not knowingly admit a student who
11 is 11 years of age or 12 years of age until that student
12 submits to the school acceptable evidence of vaccination for
13 the human papillomavirus or proof that, after receiving the
14 information required in subsection (1), the student's parent
15 or guardian has elected that the student not receive the
16 vaccine.
17 (3) The Department of Education, in consultation with
18 the Department of Health, shall prescribe the content of the
19 information required in subsection (1).
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008.
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23 SENATE SUMMARY
24 Requires public and private middle schools in the state
to provide information to students who are 11 and 12
25 years of age and their parents concerning the human
papillomavirus, its vaccine, and cervical cancer.
26 Prohibits those students from being admitted into school
without evidence of vaccination for human papillomavirus.
27 Provides that a principal may not knowingly admit certain
students into school without evidence of vaccination for
28 the human papillomavirus. Provides exceptions. Requires
the Department of Education, in consultation with the
29 Department of Health, to prescribe the content of the
information regarding the connection between the human
30 papillomavirus and cervical cancer and the availability
of a human papillomavirus vaccine.
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