Amend the bill, as and if amended, beginning on page 1 by striking lines 40-42 and on page 2 by striking lines 1-13 and inserting:
/ "Section 44-29-185. (A) (1) Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, the Department of Health and Environmental Control may offer the cervical cancer vaccination series for adolescent students. Adolescent students include children enrolling in the seventh grade in any school, public, private, or home schooling program in this State.
(2) No student is required to have the cervical cancer vaccination series before enrolling in or attending school. Consent of a parent or guardian is required for a child to receive the cervical cancer vaccination from the department, except as provided under Section 63-5-340.
(B)(1) The department may develop and provide to each school and home schooling program whose grade levels include grade six informational brochures concerning adolescent vaccinations, including the cervical cancer vaccination series. The brochure specifically shall state the benefits and side effects of the cervical cancer vaccination series and that the vaccination series is optional. The brochure shall encourage the parent or guardian of a student to take the child to the child's own health care provider to be vaccinated.
(2) At the beginning of the school year each school and home schooling program may provide this informational brochure to the parents or guardians of all students in the sixth grade.
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