By:  Zedler (Senate Sponsor - Deuell)                             H.B. No. 1316
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2005; 
April 29, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 
and Human Services; May 16, 2005, reported favorably by the 
following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 16, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to immunization requirements for children in regulated 
child-care facilities.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 42.043(b), Human Resources Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b)  The department shall require that each child at an 
appropriate age have a test for tuberculosis and be immunized 
against diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, mumps, rubella, [and] 
rubeola, invasive pneumococcal disease, and hepatitis A and against 
any other communicable disease as recommended by the [Texas] 
Department of State Health Services.  The immunization must be 
effective on the date of first entry into the facility.  However, a 
child may be provisionally admitted if the required immunizations 
have begun and are completed as rapidly as medically feasible.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           



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