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Ch. 337
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2002 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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CHAPTER 337
(Senate Bill 788)
AN ACT concerning
Statewide Advisory Commission on Immunizations
FOR the purpose of establishing the Statewide Advisory Commission on
Immunizations; providing for the composition of the Commission; requiring the
Secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to appoint the
members of the Commission; requiring a certain member to chair the
Commission, establish certain subcommittees, and appoint certain
subcommittee chairs; providing for the terms of the members; prohibiting a
member from receiving compensation but allowing members to be reimbursed
for expenses; requiring the Department to provide staffing for the Commission;
requiring the Commission to study and recommend whether the State should
adopt a certain vaccine program by a certain date; requiring the Commission to
continuously monitor the status of certain vaccines and develop a
recommendation on a certain plan; requiring the Commission to develop and
publish certain recommendations regarding skipped or postponed dosages of
vaccines and to develop a certain form to be used by certain schools; requiring
the Commission to develop and implement a certain process to delay certain
school requirements under certain circumstances; requiring the Commission to
develop a certain communications campaign; requiring the Commission to
create a plan for a certain infrastructure to be used under certain
circumstances; determining where certain vaccine shortages exist and which
vaccines are in short supply; developing a certain plan for the equitable
distribution of vaccines; studying certain other related issues; requiring the
Commission to submit certain reports a certain report; altering the process to be
used for adopting certain regulations relating to immunizations and certain
blood tests of children; providing for the termination of this Act; and generally
relating to the Statewide Advisory Commission on Immunizations.
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 18-214
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2000 Replacement Volume and 2001 Supplement)
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Education
Section 7-403(a)(1)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2001 Replacement Volume)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
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