Senate Sponsors: PARKER-O'MALLEY. House Sponsors: SKINNER-COULSON-BERGMAN Short description: SCH CD-IMMUNIZATIONS-TECHNICAL Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the School Code. Makes a grammatical change and revises an internal Section reference to certain provisions of the School Code. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Adds reference to: 410 ILCS 315/2 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 22.12 Amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act and the School Code. Specifies the diseases for which children must be immunized and deletes the power of the Department of Public Health to determine those diseases by rule. Adds an immediate effective date. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 2. Deletes all of the proposed changes to the School Code concerning immunization of school children. Adds provisions authorizing parents or legal guardians of school children to also object to health exams or immunizations on philosophical grounds. Replaces proposed changes to the Communicable Disease Prevention Act with provisions creating a 12-member Immunization Task Force to be composed of legislators, par- ents or guardians of children required to be immunized, and persons appointed by the Director of Public Health. Requires the Task Force to review the process by which DPH establishes immunization requirements and requires the Task Force to report its finding and recommendations to the Department of Public Health and the General Assembly by 2/1/98. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Replaces the provisions authorizing parents or guardians to object to health examinations or immunizations on philosophical grounds with provisions authorizing the objection based on grounds of a conscientiously held belief. In the Communicable Disease Prevention Act, also adds a provision requiring the parent or guardian to submit to the school principal, at least 45 days before the start of the school term, a signed, notarized statement of objection detailing the nature of the conscientiously held belief. Last action on Bill: SESSION SINE DIE Last action date: 99-01-12 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 2 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status