Reference is to Printer's Date 2/25/15--H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the
enacting words and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Cervical Cancer Prevention Act".
SECTION 2. Chapter 29, Title 44 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"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.
(C) For the purposes of
this section 'cervical cancer vaccination series' means the
human papillomavirus vaccination series.
(D) Implementation of
this section is contingent upon the appropriation of state and
federal funding to the department to fully cover the costs of
providing this vaccination series to eligible students as well
as the availability of funds to produce the informational
brochure provided for in subsection (B)."
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.