Senate Bill sb0660c1

    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 660

    By the Committee on Education Pre-K - 12; and Senators Fasano,
    King and Deutch




    581-2386-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the human papillomavirus;

  3         requiring that certain parents or guardians of

  4         public and private school students be provided

  5         information concerning the human

  6         papillomavirus; requiring the Department of

  7         Health to prescribe the information; providing

  8         an effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  (1)  Beginning with the 2008-2009 school

13  year, the parent or guardian of each public and private school

14  student entering grade 6 for whom the human papillomavirus

15  vaccine is approved by the United States Food and Drug

16  Administration must be provided information by the school

17  concerning the connection between the human papillomavirus and

18  cervical cancer and that a vaccine that helps prevent human

19  papillomavirus infection is available and recommended to be

20  given to females before they enter grade 6.

21         (2)  The information required to be provided to the

22  parents or guardians of the students for whom the human

23  papillomavirus vaccine is approved and recommended shall be

24  prescribed by the Department of Health.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 660
    581-2386-07




 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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 4  The Committee Substitute does not require the human papilloma
    virus vaccine as a condition for school entry but instead
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    parents of certain students concerning the virus, cervical
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