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YMCA MODEL
GRIGGS LEGISLATURE

  Bill Number 75  
SENATE SPONSOR
Emily Fitzpatrick
  ASSEMBLY SPONSOR
Lilly Luo*

     
     
Delegation: Montgomery
     
An act to repeal New Jersey Administrative Code relating to mandatory vaccinations.

Be it enacted by the Youth Model Legislature of the State of New Jersey that Law 8:57-4 of the New Jersey Administrative Code be repealed.

Section I: Title 8 Section 57-4 of the New Jersey Administrative Code states that any child attending any public or private school, child care center, nursery school, preschool or kindergarten may only be admitted to school if he or she has received the proper immunizations in accordance to the specified schedules for vaccination and if the administrator in charge of the school has obtained acceptable evidence of the child’s immunization, with the exception of religious and medical exemptions that are applicable to said child.

Section II: Title 8 Section 57-4 of the New Jersey Administrative Code shall hereby be removed so as no child is required to receive immunizations of any sort for admittance to school.

Section III: The New Jersey Department of Health shall notify the administration all public and private schools to inform them that pupils are no longer required to receive immunizations of any sort for admittance in school.

     
Statement of Intent: The purpose of this bill is to give children and their families the right to choose the vaccinations they wish to impose on their body as well as reduce the amount of painful allergic reactions and disabilities that may result from recieving vaccinations.

Effective Date: This bill shall take effect on January 1, 2011.

Financial Statement: The cost of this bill shall be $5,000 for the rewriting and redistributing of law books.


* Primary Sponsor
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