Bill Text: IA SF116 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the obtaining of a religious exemption from the required immunization of a person enrolling in any elementary or secondary school or a licensed child care center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-26 - Subcommittee: Chelgren, Chapman, and Quirmbach. S.J. 145. [SF116 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF116-Introduced.html

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Senate File 116 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  QUIRMBACH and DVORSKY

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the obtaining of a religious exemption from
  2    the required immunization of a person enrolling in any
  3    elementary or secondary school or a licensed child care
  4    center.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 139A.8, subsection 4, paragraph a,
  1  2 subparagraph (2), Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (2)  The applicant, or if the applicant is a minor, the
  1  4 applicant's parent or legal guardian, submits an affidavit
  1  5 signed by both the applicant, or if the applicant is a minor,
  1  6 the applicant's parent or legal guardian, and the leader of the
  1  7 local congregation of a recognized religious denomination of
  1  8 which the applicant is an adherent or member, stating that the
  1  9 immunization conflicts with the tenets and practices of a the
  1 10  recognized religious denomination of to which the applicant
  1 11 is an adherent or member local congregation belongs, and
  1 12 that the applicant is a member in good standing of the local
  1 13 congregation.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 17    This bill relates to the obtaining of a religious exemption
  1 18 from the required immunization of a person enrolling in any
  1 19 elementary or secondary school or a licensed child care center.
  1 20    Currently, an applicant, or if the applicant is a minor, the
  1 21 applicant's parent or legal guardian, must submit an affidavit
  1 22 signed by the applicant, or if the applicant is a minor, the
  1 23 applicant's parent or legal guardian, stating that the required
  1 24 immunization conflicts with the tenets and practices of a
  1 25 recognized religious denomination of which the applicant is an
  1 26 adherent or member in order to be exempt from the immunization
  1 27 requirement. The bill amends this provision to also require
  1 28 that, in addition to the applicant, or the applicant's parent
  1 29 or legal guardian, the leader of the local congregation of a
  1 30 recognized religious denomination of which the applicant is
  1 31 an adherent or member, sign the affidavit stating that the
  1 32 required immunization conflicts with the tenets and practices
  1 33 of the recognized religious denomination to which the local
  1 34 congregation belongs and that the applicant is a member in good
  1 35 standing of the local congregation.
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