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Senate committee advances bill moving daycare immunization rules from agency regulations into statute
Summary
The Senate Health Committee voted to send House Bill 290 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after lawmakers debated moving existing daycare immunization rules into statute, including provisions that allow exclusion of noncompliant children and random compliance visits by the department.
The Senate Health Committee on Tuesday voted to send House Bill 290 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. Representative Healy, sponsor of the bill, said the measure moves existing agency rules on immunizations for children in licensed daycare facilities into statute so the Legislature — rather than agency directors — controls those requirements.
Representative Healy said the bill “puts the control back into the elected officials” by preventing the department from adopting temporary rules outside of the legislative session. “By doing this and moving the rules into statute, the department can no longer make temporary rules on vaccines, increase enforcement,…
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