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Senate committee advances bill moving daycare immunization rules from agency rule into statute
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 290 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. The bill would codify existing Department rules on immunizations and exclusions for licensed daycare facilities in statute; senators raised questions about exclusions during outbreaks and the scope of random compliance visits.
Representative Healy, a nurse-legislator from District 15, introduced House Bill 290 to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, saying the measure would transfer existing department rules into statute and limit the agency's ability to impose temporary rules outside the legislative session. “By doing this, we're putting the control back into the elected officials,” Representative Healy said. He added that, if enacted, “they can no longer make temporary rules on vaccines, increase enforcement, etcetera.”
The bill would codify provisions that allow licensed daycare operators to exclude a child who does not meet the section's conditions until the child is in compliance. Senator…
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