HB 1035 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

15Mar2022... 0854h

2022 SESSION

22-2182

05/10

HOUSE BILL 1035

AN ACT relative to exemptions from school vaccine mandates.

SPONSORS: Rep. Lang, Belk. 4; Rep. Pearl, Merr. 26; Sen. Giuda, Dist 2; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill removes the requirement that a parent's request for a religious exemption to immunizations required for school attendance be notarized.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15Mar2022... 0854h 22-2182

05/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT relative to exemptions from school vaccine mandates.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1  Communicable Disease; Immunization Required for School Attendance; Grounds and Procedure for Exemption.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-c, II to read as follows:

II. A parent or legal guardian objects to immunization because of religious beliefs. The parent or legal guardian shall sign a [notarized] form stating that the child has not been immunized because of religious beliefs.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.