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House committee approves bill requiring schools to give parents information on adolescent vaccines
Summary
A House committee approved House Bill 173 (LC 610044) as amended, directing the Department of Education to provide parents and guardians of students entering seventh grade with recommended adolescent vaccination information. The measure is informational only and does not mandate immunizations.
Representative Taylor, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee that House Bill 173 (LC 610,044) would require the Department of Education to provide parents and guardians of students entering the sixth grade — amended to seventh grade during the hearing — with information on recommended adolescent vaccinations and how parents may get more information.
“This is purely informational,” Representative Taylor said, adding the materials “can be electronic. It can be paper.” Taylor also said the bill “does not require any immunizations. There is no pressure to go get them.”
Committee members asked how…
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