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Public Act 098-0480
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| HB3190 Enrolled | LRB098 10379 RPM 41465 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 10. The Communicable Disease Prevention Act is |
amended by adding Section 1.10 as follows:
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(410 ILCS 315/1.10 new) |
Sec. 1.10. Meningococcal conjugate vaccine. The Department |
of Public Health shall adopt a rule requiring students, upon |
entering the 6th and 12th grade of any public, private, or |
parochial school, to receive an immunization containing |
meningococcal conjugate vaccine that meets the standards |
approved by the U.S. Public Health Service for such biological |
products and is in accordance with the recommendations of the |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory |
Committee on Immunization Practices. The immunization shall |
consist of one dose of the MCV4 vaccine for 6th grade entrance |
and 2 doses for 12th grade entrance, unless the first dose was |
administered to a child who was 16 years of age or older, in |
which case only one dose is required at 12th grade entrance. |
However, if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' recommendations |
for adolescents are updated, then the requirement under this |
Section should reflect those changes to be current. The |