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MI HB4425
Bill
Status
3/28/2017
Primary Sponsor
Tom Barrett
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AI Summary
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Rescinds Michigan Administrative Code Rule 325.175, which allowed local health officers to exclude students from school based on lack of immunization documentation outside of epidemic situations.
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Prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from promulgating rules that impose additional or different exemption requirements beyond those established in statute for immunizations in schools and group programs.
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Restricts the department's authority to exclude students who lack immunity documentation as a disease control measure to epidemic situations only, removing authority for non-epidemic exclusions.
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Requires the department to include information about immunization effectiveness and potential risks whenever it provides information to the public about available exemptions.
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Takes effect 90 days after enactment and is contingent on passage of House Bill 4426 or a Senate bill with the same provisions.
Legislative Description
Health; immunizations; promulgation of certain rules by the department of health and human services that are more stringent than the vaccination exemptions provided in statute and that exclude individuals from school as a disease control measure; prohibit. Amends secs. 5111, 9215 & 9227 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.5111 et seq.) & adds sec. 5115a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4426'17
Health: education
Last Action
Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/28/2017
3/29/2017