HB 647
AN ACT relating to immunization policy.
In Plain Language
This bill lets college students, staff, and faculty opt out of vaccine requirements for certain reasons. It prevents public agencies from creating documents that verify someone's vaccination status and bars schools from starting new vaccine policies mid-school year. It also allows people to skip vaccines based on religious beliefs, medical reasons, or conscientiously held beliefs, and creates a way to sue if these rules are broken.
Official summary
Create a new of section KRS Chapter 164 to allow a student, staff, or faculty member to opt out of a postsecondary school's immunization policy for specified reasons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for a sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of federal mandates and exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations; amend KRS 214.015 to prohibit the Department for Public Health from releasing personally identifiable information from immunization reports to another public agency or third party; amend KRS 214.034 to prohibit public and private primary and secondary schools and preschool programs from promulgating a new immunization policy and mandating compliance during a school year that has already commenced; and amend KRS 214.036 to allow objection to immunization on the basis of conscientiously held beliefs.
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Latest action
to Health Services (H)
Feb 26, 2025
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