§ 21-40-5-9 — State educational institution records of student immunization status

(a) The designated record keeping office shall
maintain records obtained under section 7 of this chapter containing the
required elements of the immunization status of an enrolled student.
The information required on the certificate of immunity and the
documentation of exemption, whichever applies, constitutes the
required elements of an enrolled student's immunization status. The
information on the certificate of immunity and the documentation of
exemption, whichever applies:
(1) is sufficient for accurate compliance with section 11 of this
chapter; and
(2) must be accepted by each state educational institution for
purposes of this chapter.
(b) The department and the local health department shall, for good
cause shown that there exists a substantial threat to the:
(1) health and safety of a student; or
(2) community of an educational institution;
be able to validate immunization reports by onsite reviews or
examinations of nonidentifying immunization record data. This section
does not independently authorize the department, a local department of
health, or an agent of the state or local department of health to have
access to identifying medical or academic record data of individual
students attending nonaccredited private postsecondary educational
institutions.
(c) The records referred to in subsection (a) are sufficient to enable
the state educational institution to generate a listing of the students who
have filed documentation of exemption forms. The state educational
institution shall develop sufficient plans for excluding these students
from the state educational institution for the protection of these
students if an outbreak of a vaccine preventable disease listed in
section 2 of this chapter occurs at or near the campus of the state
educational institution.
[Pre-2007 Higher Education Recodification Citation:
20-12-71-17.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.281.