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2023 SESSION
HB 2306 Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health, religious tenets or practices, exception.
Introduced by: Nicholas J. Freitas | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Immunizations; authority of the Commissioner of Health; religious exception. Exempts a person, including a parent or guardian on behalf of a child, who objects to administration of a vaccine on religious grounds from mandatory immunization requirements issued by the Commissioner of Health during an epidemic. Currently, exemption from mandatory immunization requirements during an epidemic is available only to those persons to whose health the administration of the vaccine would be detrimental, as certified in writing by a licensed physician.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/23 House: Presented and ordered printed 23103428D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23103428D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
HISTORY
- 01/11/23 House: Presented and ordered printed 23103428D
- 01/11/23 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/19/23 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/24/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 4-N)
- 01/31/23 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (12-Y 9-N)
- 02/02/23 House: Read first time
- 02/03/23 House: Read second time
- 02/03/23 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/03/23 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB2306E
- 02/03/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23103428D-E
- 02/06/23 House: Read third time and passed House (52-Y 48-N)
- 02/06/23 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 48-N)
- 02/07/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/16/23 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (8-Y 7-N)