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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 350 By: Hamilton
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; prohibiting com pulsory
immunization by public, private o r parochial school;
authorizing State Department of Health to recommend
certain immunizations; authorizing school to provide
immunizations to certain students under c ertain
conditions; providing violation and pen alty;
repealing 70 O.S. 2011, Sections 1210.191, 1210.192
and 1210.193, which relate to immuniz ations;
providing for codification; providing an effective
date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1210.190 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. No child shall be required to receive any immunization as a
condition of admittan ce to any public, private or parochial school .
Such school shall not use any coercive means to compel immunization.
B. The State Department of Health may recommend, but shall not
require, a list of immunizations for children. A public, private or
parochial school may provide immunizations recommended by the
Department to a child who has not received such immunizations if the
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school complies with applicable law including, but not limited to,
Section 1-116.2 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes and the
Parents’ Bill of Rights.
C. The appropriate authority of a public, private or paroch ial
school who violates this section shall be in violation of the
Parents’ Bill of Rights and may be punished as provided in Section
2004 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma S tatutes.
SECTION 2. REPEALER 70 O.S. 2011, Sections 1210.191,
1210.192 and 1210.193 are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 2021.
SECTION 4. It being immediately necessary f or the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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