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House Bill No. 5506

Public Act No. 22-118 691 of 739

of the vaccine recipient, (2) the name and date of each vaccine dose given to [that child or] the vaccine recipient, (3) any other information deemed necessary by the commissioner, and (4) when appropriate, contraindications or exemptions to administration of each vaccine dose. [Reports shall be made by such means determined by the commissioner to result in timely reporting.] Each health care provider shall provide to a vaccine recipient, a vaccine recipient's court-appointed guardian or conservator, if applicable, or, in the case of a child who received a vaccine, such child's parent or guardian information regarding how such vaccine recipient or such child may decline enrollment in the immunization information system. (d) Each health care provider intending to administer vaccines to any [child listed on the registry and each parent or guardian of such child shall be provided] person may use the immunization information system to determine current information [as contained in the registry] on the immunization status of [the child] such person for the purposes of determining whether [additional doses of recommended routine childhood immunizations are needed] such person requires immunizations, or to officially document immunization status to meet state [day] child care, [or] school or higher education immunization entry requirements pursuant to sections 10-204a, 10a-155, 19a-79 and 19a-87b and regulations adopted thereunder. (e) Each [director of health of any town, city or health district and each] school nurse who is required to verify the immunization status for children enrolled in prekindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive, at a public or private school in any town, city or school district pursuant to section 10-204a shall be provided with sufficient information on the children who live in [his or her] the school nurse's jurisdiction and who are listed on the [registry] immunization information system to enable determination of which children are overdue for scheduled immunizations and to enable provision of outreach to assist in getting