House Bill 0005

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                   HB 5

        By Representative Crow






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to immunizations; providing a

  3         short title; amending s. 232.032, F.S.; adding

  4         a disease for which immunization is required

  5         for school attendance; providing an effective

  6         date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  This act may be cited as the "Jonathon Ryan

11  Atchison Immunization Act of 1999."

12         Section 2.  Subsection (1) of section 232.032, Florida

13  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

14         232.032  Immunization against communicable diseases;

15  school attendance requirements; exemptions.--

16         (1)  The Department of Health may adopt rules necessary

17  to administer and enforce this section. The Department of

18  Health, after consultation with the Department of Education,

19  shall adopt rules governing the immunization of children

20  against, the testing for, and the control of preventable

21  communicable diseases. The rules must include procedures for

22  exempting a child from immunization requirements.

23  Immunizations shall be required for poliomyelitis, diphtheria,

24  rubeola, rubella, pertussis, mumps, tetanus, varicella, and

25  other communicable diseases as determined by rules of the

26  Department of Health.  The manner and frequency of

27  administration of the immunization or testing shall conform to

28  recognized standards of medical practice.  The Department of

29  Health shall supervise and secure the enforcement of the

30  required immunization. Immunizations required by this section

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                   HB 5

    568-149-99






  1  shall be available at no cost from the county health

  2  departments.

  3         (2)  The school board of each district and the

  4  governing authority of each nonpublic school shall establish

  5  and enforce as policy that, prior to admittance to or

  6  attendance in a public or nonpublic school, grades preschool

  7  through 12, each child present or have on file with the school

  8  a certification of immunization for the prevention of those

  9  communicable diseases for which immunization is required by

10  the Department of Health and further shall provide for

11  appropriate screening of its pupils for scoliosis at the

12  proper age. Such certification shall be made on forms approved

13  and provided by the Department of Health and shall become a

14  part of each student's permanent record, to be transferred

15  when the student transfers, is promoted, or changes schools.

16  The transfer of such immunization certification by Florida

17  public schools shall be accomplished using the Florida

18  Automated System for Transferring Education Records and shall

19  be deemed to meet the requirements of this section.

20         Section 3.  This act shall take effect October 1 of the

21  year in which enacted.

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24                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Requires immunization of children for varicella
26    (chickenpox) prior to school attendance in grades
      preschool through 12.
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