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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 279 By: Dahm
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to parental rights; creating th e
Parental Rights Immunization Act; providing short
title; requiring health care provider to obtain
informed consent from legal representative prior to
vaccinating child; requiring health care provider to
provide certain information; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date.
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 2006 of Title 25, unless there
is created a duplication in num bering, reads as follows:
A. This section shall be known and may be cited as the
“Parental Rights Immunization Act ”.
B. Each health care provider who administers a vaccine set
forth in the Vaccine Injury Table, as established by the United
States Department of Health and Human Services, sha ll obtain
informed consent from the legal representa tive or other adult
authorized by law to consent on behalf of a minor to whom such
provider intends to administer such vaccine. Prior to administering
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the vaccine, the health care provider shall provide relevant
information regarding benefits and risks of the vaccine as well as
information concerning the National Vac cine Injury Compensation
Program.
C. Providing a copy of the Vaccine Information Statement, the
source of which is clearly identified, and m aking available for
review the Centers for Disease C ontrol and Prevention ’s
“Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine -Preventable Diseases:
Vaccine Excipient and Media Summary ”, the Centers for Disease
Control and Preventi on’s Vaccine Injury Table or the Ce nters for
Disease Control and Prevention’s contraindications and precautions
or any combination of these three resourc es to the legal
representative or other adult authorized by law to consent on behalf
of a minor shall constitute a minimum standard of rel evant
information.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 20 23.
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