81R5454 JSC-D
By: Farrar H.B. No. 2220
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of the executive commissioner of the
Health and Human Services Commission to require immunization
against human papillomavirus for a person's admission to elementary
or secondary school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 38.001(b), Education Code, as amended by
Chapters 43 (H.B. 1098) and 94 (H.B. 1059), Acts of the 80th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, is reenacted and amended to
read as follows:
(b) Subject to Subsection [Subsections (b-1) and] (c), the
executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission
by rule adopted for the Department of State Health Services may
modify or delete any of the immunizations in Subsection (a) or may
require immunizations against additional diseases as a requirement
for admission to any elementary or secondary school.
SECTION 2. Section 38.001(b-1), Education Code, as added by
Chapter 43 (H.B. 1098), Acts of the 80th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2007, is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.