SB460 SFAT Woelfel #1 2-17

Wolfe  7816

Senator Woelfel moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for Senate Bill 460—A Bill to amend and reenact §16-3-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to exemptions for compulsory immunization requirements; providing specific duties for the state health officer; removing reporting requirements; revising medical exemption process; eliminating state immunization officer; permitting religious and philosophical exemptions to mandatory vaccination requirements in public schools and state-regulated child care centers; permitting private and parochial schools, and state-regulated child care centers operated by private or parochial schools or by religious institutions, to develop policies allowing religious or philosophical exemptions to mandatory vaccination requirements; providing that no private school, parochial school, or child care center operated by a private or parochial school or by a religious institution, nor any administrator, employee, board, owner, or operator thereof, shall be subject to civil liability for exercising discretion whether to develop a policy allowing religious or philosophical exemptions; prohibiting entities from excluding participation in extracurricular activities based upon exercising an exemption; prohibiting entities from excluding attendance at school-based events based upon exercising an exemption; permitting a civil action for violations of this section; and setting forth public policy supporting exemptions.

Adopted

Rejected