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  By: Beckley, Howard, Turner of Tarrant, H.B. No. 4068
      Sheffield
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4068:
 
  By:  Sheffield C.S.H.B. No. 4068
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the vaccination against bacterial meningitis of public
  school students.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 38.001, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), each student
  shall be fully immunized against bacterial meningitis in accordance
  with the most recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
  Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention. The executive commissioner of the Health and Human
  Services Commission shall adopt rules for the implementation of
  this subsection.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than June 1, 2020, the executive
  commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission shall
  adopt the rules necessary to implement Section 38.001(a-1),
  Education Code, as added by this Act.
         SECTION 3.  Section 38.001(a-1), Education Code, as added by
  this Act, applies beginning with the 2020-2021 school year.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.