Bill Text: TX HB1611 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the date by which certain entering students at public and private or independent institutions of higher education must receive a vaccination against bacterial meningitis.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-05 - Referred to Public Health [HB1611 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1611-Introduced.html
  83R8364 KSD-F
 
  By: Perez H.B. No. 1611
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the date by which certain entering students at public
  and private or independent institutions of higher education must
  receive a vaccination against bacterial meningitis.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 51.9192(e), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (e)  The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in
  consultation with institutions of higher education and private or
  independent institutions of higher education, shall adopt rules for
  the administration of this section, including rules establishing
  the date by which a student who is required to comply with
  Subsection (c) must have received the vaccination required by that
  subsection, which may not be later than the 45th [10th] day after
  [before] the first day of the semester or other term in which the
  student initially enrolls unless the student is granted an
  extension by the institution as provided by the rules adopted under
  this subsection.  [The rules must authorize an institution of
  higher education or private or independent institution of higher
  education to extend the compliance date for an individual student
  to a date that is not later than the 10th day after the first day of
  the semester or other term in which the student initially enrolls.]
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply
  beginning with entering students enrolling in public or private or
  independent institutions of higher education in this state on or
  after January 1, 2014.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect October 1, 2013.
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