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11 The Committee on Education Pre-K - 12 (Deutch) recommended the
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 1. (1)(a) By January 1, 2009, the Department
19 of Health shall adopt a rule adding the human papillomavirus
20 to the list of communicable diseases set forth in s. 1003.22,
21 Florida Statutes, for which immunization must be required
22 before a female student may be admitted to the 8th grade of a
23 public or private school.
24 (b) The rule must include procedures for exempting a
25 female student from the immunization requirement.
26 (c) The rule must contain provisions to notify the
27 parent or guardian of the female student that, after receiving
28 information about the human papillomavirus immunization, the
29 parent or guardian may, in writing, elect to refuse to allow
30 the student to receive the human papillomavirus immunization
31 and that the parent or guardian may refuse the immunization
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1 without disclosing a reason for doing so.
2 (2) Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, each
3 public or private middle school in this state must provide to
4 the parent or guardian of female students who are entering the
5 6th grade information concerning the connection between the
6 human papillomavirus and cervical cancer and that a vaccine
7 for preventing human papillomavirus is available to the
8 student during the school year in order for the student to be
9 admitted into the 8th grade.
10 (3) Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, a female
11 student who is entering the 7th grade may not be admitted to
12 any private or public school in this state until the student
13 submits to the school a certificate of immunization showing
14 that the student has commenced the immunization protocol for
15 the human papillomavirus or a written statement, signed by the
16 parent or guardian of the student indicating that, after
17 receiving information about the human papillomavirus, the
18 parent or guardian has elected for the female student not to
19 receive the immunization.
20 (4) Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, a
21 principal or any other person in charge of a public or private
22 school may not knowingly admit a female student into the 8th
23 grade until the student submits to the school a certification
24 of immunization for the prevention of the human papillomavirus
25 showing the protocol for the immunization has been completed
26 or a written statement, signed by the parent or guardian of
27 the student indicating that, after receiving information about
28 the human papillomavirus, the parent or guardian has elected
29 for the female student not to receive the immunization.
30 (5) The Department of Education, in consultation with
31 the Department of Health, shall prescribe the content of the
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1 information for female students and their parent or guardian
2 concerning the connection between the human papillomavirus and
3 cervical cancer required in this section and for which
4 students the vaccine is recommended.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
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9 And the title is amended as follows:
10 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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13 A bill to be entitled
14 An act relating to the human papillomavirus;
15 requiring public and private middle schools in
16 the state to provide to female students and
17 their parents or guardians information
18 concerning the human papillomavirus, its
19 vaccine, and cervical cancer; requiring female
20 students, before admission into school, to
21 provide evidence of vaccination for the human
22 papillomavirus; providing an exception;
23 requiring a principal to seek evidence of a
24 student's vaccination for the human
25 papillomavirus; providing an exception;
26 requiring the Department of Education, in
27 consultation with the Department of Health, to
28 prescribe the content of the information
29 regarding the connection between the human
30 papillomavirus and cervical cancer and the
31 availability of a vaccine preventing human
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