AB 12

This bill prohibits the Department of Health Services from taking any of the

following actions related to the statewide immunization program: including

varicella, which causes chicken pox, or meningococcal disease in the definition of

substantial outbreak, defining a substantial outbreak of mumps as being three or

more cases of mumps linked by time and place, delaying the requirement for a

student to obtain a vaccination by the combination tetanus, reduced diphtheria, and

acellular pertussis vaccine from before the 6th grade to before the 7th grade, adding

the meningococcal vaccine to those vaccines required for students to obtain before

entering 7th grade or requiring a booster of meningococcal vaccine before entering

12th grade, or refusing to allow an exception to the varicella vaccination requirement

for self-report by a parent or adult student of a history of varicella disease. Under

current law, DHS is allowed to add, by rule, to those diseases for which a school

student or a child entering a child care center or nursery school must obtain an

immunization.

This bill is introduced as required by s. 227.19 (5) (e) and (g), stats., in support

of the partial objection of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules

on May 5, 2020, to promulgation of clearinghouse rule 19-079 by DHS. The proposed

rule made revisions relating to immunization of students.