DIGEST
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT DIGEST
HB 47 2024 Regular Session Edmonston
Keyword and oneliner of the instrument as it left the House
VACCINES/VACCINATION: Requires that communication issued about immunization
requirements include exemption information and applies exemptions not only to students seeking
to enter school but also to students attending school
Report adopts Senate amendments to:
1. Remove proposed law requirement that written dissent include written verification that the
child has been examined by a physician.
2. Exempt distance learners from present law and proposed law relative to vaccine requirements
for persons attending or seeking to enter a school.
Report amends the bill to:
1. Make technical correction.
Digest of the bill as proposed by the Conference Committee
Present law requires each person entering any school (licensed day care centers and elementary,
secondary, and postsecondary schools) for the first time to present satisfactory evidence of immunity
to or immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases according to a schedule approved by the
office of public health or to present evidence of an immunization program in progress.
Present law exempts a student seeking to enter any such school or facility from this requirement if
he submits a written statement from a doctor relative to medical contraindication or a written dissent.
Proposed law:
(1) Applies the exemption not only to students seeking to enter school but also to students
attending school.
(2) Applies exemption to distance learners.
(3) Requires that any communication issued to students or their parents or guardians relative to
immunization requirements include the text and legal citation of the exemption provision.
(Amends R.S. 17:170(A)(E))


Statutes affected:
HB47 Original: 17:170(E)
HB47 Engrossed: 17:170(E)
HB47 Reengrossed: 17:170(E)
HB47 Enrolled: 17:170(E)
HB47 Act 675: 17:170(E)