![]() ![]() The committee has the authority to approve or reject the department’s proposal or require the department to revise it.Ĭurrently, the form is available to parents but will not be required until the committee approves it as an interim rule change, something that could happen in the coming weeks, said Health and Human Services spokesman Jake Leon. ![]() ![]() Lang intends to raise those concerns when the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, which he sits on, takes up the department’s proposal Sept. Lang said requiring parents to disclose which vaccines their child hasn’t received violates a 2018 state constitutional amendment that affirmed Granite Staters’ “right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.” He said he could foresee someone using the information to bring a charge of neglect against a parent who’d opted to forgo a vaccination. Tim Lang, a Sanbornton Republican and prime sponsor of House Bill 1035, said those additions exceed the department’s authority because they were not included in his bill, which Gov. It also requires parents to acknowledge that not vaccinating their child against a disease poses a risk their child could contract that disease and transmit it to others, also not part of the current form. The revised religious exemption form asks parents to identify which of the six required vaccines their child hasn’t received, something not currently required. Under a new state law, the Department of Health and Human Services has dropped its requirement that parents get a notary’s signature when they submit a form exempting their child from school and child care vaccine mandates for religious reasons.īut the department is proposing new requirements that have angered the law’s prime sponsor and activists who vehemently opposed vaccine mandates this session. ![]()
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