79R5805 RMB-F

By:  Deuell                                                       S.B. No. 1773



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, and pneumococcal disease 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.