Amend HB 1586 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 38.002, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsections (a) and (c) and adding Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows:
(a) Each public school shall keep an individual immunization record during the period of attendance for each student admitted. The records shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times by the agency [Texas Education Agency] or by representatives of local health departments or the [Texas] Department of State Health Services.
(c) The agency [Texas Education Agency] and the [Texas] Department of State Health Services shall develop the form for a required annual report of the immunization status of students that includes de-identified immunization exemption information. The report shall be submitted by all schools at the time and in the manner indicated in the instructions printed on the form.
(d) Each school district shall provide to the Department of State Health Services the information required by Subsection (c) for the district as a whole and for each school campus in the district.
(e) The Department of State Health Services shall make available to the public in electronic form, on the department's Internet website, the required annual report of the immunization status of students for each school district and for each school campus, submitted under Subsection (c).
(f) On request of a student's parent or legal guardian, a school district or school campus shall provide to the parent or guardian a copy of the following information for the campus at which the student is enrolled:
(1) the immunization rate disaggregated by type of vaccine; and
(2) the information submitted under Subsection (c), including:
(A) de-identified immunization exemption information;
(B) the number of students provisionally enrolled pending documentation of immunization;
(C) the number of students claiming an exemption for reasons of conscience, including a religious belief;
(D) the number of students claiming an exemption for a medical reason; and
(E) the number of students whose vaccinations are not current.
SECTION ____. As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, the Texas Education Agency shall update the form required by Section 38.002(c), Education Code, as amended by this Act, to comply with that section and Section 38.002(d), Education Code, as added by this Act.