Present law provides that it is the responsibility of each parent or legal guardian to ensure that such person's child or children receive the vaccines as are recommended by guidelines of the Center for Disease Control or the American Academy of Pediatrics to be administered to a child. The parent or legal guardian is encouraged to obtain the recommended immunizations within the first two years of the child's life. Such vaccines include, without limitation, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP), oral polio vaccine (OPV) or inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccines (Hib), hepatitis B vaccine (Hep B), pneumoccocal vaccine when medically indicated, influenza vaccine, when medically indicated, and varicella, when available. This bill removes all of these provisions.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 37-10-401(a), 37-10-401