Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB429 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 429
5	5	September 19, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives SUBECK, RATCLIFF, J.
6	6	ANDERSON, BALDEH, BARE, DRAKE, EMERSON, MADISON, PALMERI, SHELTON,
7	7	SNODGRASS, STUBBS and CLANCY, cosponsored by Senators SPREITZER and ROYS.
8	8	Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 49.155 (1m) (br) and 252.04 (3) of the statutes; relating to:
11	11	eliminating personal conviction exemption from immunizations.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	Under current law, a student admitted to elementary, middle, junior, or senior
14	14	high school, a child care center, or a nursery school must, within 30 days of
15	15	admission, present evidence of having completed the first immunization for each
16	16	vaccine required for the student's grade and being on schedule for the remainder of
17	17	the basic and booster immunization series for mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria,
18	18	whooping cough, poliomyelitis, tetanus, and any other diseases the Department of
19	19	Health Services specifies by rule. This immunization requirement is waived,
20	20	however, if the student or the student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian instead
21	21	submits a written statement to the school, child care center, or nursery school
22	22	objecting to the immunization for reasons of health, religion, or personal conviction.
23	23	A school, child care center, or nursery school may exclude a student who does not
24	24	meet the immunization requirement or does not present a waiver and is required to
25	25	exclude a student who does not meet the immunization requirement or does not
26	26	present a waiver if fewer than 99 percent of the students have complied with the
27	27	immunization requirement or presented a waiver. A court may issue an order
28	28	directing a student to comply with the immunization requirement or present a
29	29	waiver by a certain date, and if the student is not in compliance, the court may
30	30	require an adult student or the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a minor
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34	34	ASSEMBLY BILL 429
35	35	student to pay a forfeiture. This bill eliminates personal conviction as a reason for
36	36	a waiver of the immunization requirement.
37	37	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
38	38	enact as follows:
39	39	SECTION 1. 49.155 (1m) (br) of the statutes is amended to read:
40	40	49.155 (1m) (br) The child is immunized as required under s. 252.04.
41	41	Notwithstanding s. 252.04 (3), for purposes of this paragraph the immunization
42	42	requirement may only be waived for reasons of health or religion.
43	43	SECTION 2. 252.04 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
44	44	252.04 (3) The immunization requirement is waived if the student, if an adult,
45	45	or the student's parent, guardian, or legal custodian submits a written statement to
46	46	the school, child care center, or nursery school objecting to the immunization for
47	47	reasons of health, or religion, or personal conviction. At the time any school, child
48	48	care center, or nursery school notifies a student, parent, guardian, or legal custodian
49	49	of the immunization requirements, it shall inform the person in writing of the
50	50	person's right to a waiver under this subsection.
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