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COMMITTEE REPORT
YES:
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NO:
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MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Public Health , to which was referred House Bill 2099 , has
had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Delete the title and insert the following:
A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning welfare.
Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
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SECTION 1. [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]
(a) Before July 1,
2002, the division of family and children shall adopt rules under
IC 4-22-2 to require each child who is less than eighteen (18) years
of age and who resides in a family that receives monthly cash
assistance payments through the federal Temporary Assistance to
Needy Families program to receive the immunizations
recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics unless the
parent or other adult caretaker relative:
(1) refuses to have the child immunized because of religious
beliefs; or
(2) provides documented medical evidence from a licensed
physician that the immunization is not available or
appropriate for the child.
(b) This SECTION expires July 1, 2002.
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SECTION 2.
An emergency is declared for this act.
(Reference is to HB 2099 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
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AM209901/DI 77 2001