Bill Text: IL SB1659 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall adopt a rule requiring students, upon entering the 6th grade of any public, private, or parochial school, to receive a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Provides that the Department shall adopt the rule in time to allow students to receive the vaccination before the start of the school year beginning in 2022. Effective January 1, 2021.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-13 - Tabled By Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison [SB1659 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB1659-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB1659 Introduced 2/15/2019, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
410 ILCS 315/2f new
Amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall adopt a rule requiring students, upon entering the 6th grade of any public, private, or parochial school, to receive a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. Provides that the Department shall adopt the rule in time to allow students to receive the vaccination before the start of the school year beginning in 2022. Effective January 1, 2021.
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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Communicable Disease Prevention Act is
amended by adding Section 2f as follows:
(410 ILCS 315/2f new)
Sec. 2f. Human papillomavirus vaccination. The Department
of Public Health shall adopt a rule requiring students, upon
entering the 6th grade of any public, private, or parochial
school, to receive a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination.
The Department shall adopt the rule in time to allow students
to receive the vaccination before the start of the school year
beginning in 2022.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
1, 2021.