Prohibiting certain actions by the Department of Health Services related to the immunization program

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

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.

Who's behind it

The official record doesn't name its authors.