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91_HB2756
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by adding Section 27-8.2.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by adding Section
5 27-8.2 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/27-8.2 new)
7 Sec. 27-8.2. Home schools; report of immunizations.
8 (a) The parent or guardian of a student in a home school
9 program shall notify the county health department, not later
10 than November 15 of each calendar year, of the names,
11 addresses, and birthdates of all children who are then
12 enrolled as students or receiving instruction in the home
13 school program. The notice shall be in writing, shall be
14 signed by the child's parent or guardian, and shall be
15 accompanied by a copy of a birth, baptismal, or equivalent
16 certificate or record of the child's name and age.
17 (b) Each child enrolled as a student or receiving
18 instruction in the home school program shall be required by
19 the parent or guardian to receive such immunizations against
20 preventable communicable diseases and such vision and hearing
21 screening services as the Department of Public Health shall
22 require for school children generally under rules and
23 regulations promulgated by the Department pursuant to the
24 Communicable Disease Prevention Act, the Child Vision and
25 Hearing Test Act, and Section 27-8.1 of the School Code.
26 However, the parent or guardian of a child who objects to
27 immunizations on religious grounds or to vision and hearing
28 screening services on constitutional grounds shall not be
29 required to submit his or her child or ward to the
30 immunization or screening, nor shall an immunization be
31 required if a physician employed by the parent or guardian to
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1 provide care and treatment to the child states that the
2 child's physical condition is such that administration of one
3 or more of the required immunizing agents would be
4 detrimental to the health of the child. The parent or
5 guardian shall submit to the county health department to
6 which the notice required by subsection (a) of this Section
7 is to be given, not later than November 15 of each calendar
8 year, proof that each child then enrolled as a student or
9 receiving instruction in the home school program has received
10 the immunizations and screenings required by this paragraph.
11 If a child has not received the immunizations or screenings,
12 the child's parent or guardian shall submit to the county
13 health department a signed statement detailing the grounds
14 for the religious or constitutional objections or the
15 physician's statement that administration of the required
16 immunizing agent or agents would be harmful to the child.