School Requirements

• Childcare and school vaccination requirements
  This tool provides state vaccination requirements, state exemptions, and links to state web sites reporting requirements.
  
• School entry requirements, by state
  Source: Immunization Action Coalition
• Immunization requirements, by disease
  Source: Immunization Action Coalition
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State Requirements

• State immunization laws database (updated regularly)
  This tool lets you navigate a database of vaccination laws by state for health care workers, patients, and residents of long term care facilities. It specifies which vaccines are required and what type of assessment is required.
• State mandates on immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases
  Source: Immunization Action Coalition
  Lists vaccination mandates for school entry, health care workers, and residents of long term care facilities, listed by vaccine.
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Exemptions & Consent Forms

All states allow medical exemptions for persons who have medical contraindication to vaccination. Most states allow religious exemptions and some allow philosophical/personal belief exemptions.

• Vaccination exemptions
  Source: History of Vaccines
• A statement regarding personal belief exemption from immunization mandates [PDF - 88KB, 7 pages]
  Source: Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (Mar 2011)
• Personal belief exemptions for vaccination put
  people at risk. Examine the evidence for yourself.
  [PDF - 131KB, 2 pages]
  Source: Immunization Action Coalition (Oct 2010)
• Chapter 13, Vaccination Mandates: The Public Health Imperative and Individual Rights
• Vaccination Requirements and Exemptions
  Source: University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics

There is no Federal requirement for informed consent relating to immunization. For state and local regulations, check with your local or state health department.

• Are VISs "informed consent" forms?
• Informed Consent in Vaccination
  Source: University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

• Overview
  
• HIPAA and Access to Patient Records during AFIX & VFC Visits
• HIPAA and Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention