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91_HB2756 LRB9100672LDmbA 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 -2- LRB9100672LDmbA 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.