An act to create and enact a new section to chapter 23-12 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to an opt-out procedure for required vaccines., the official text

Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
HOUSE BILL NO. 1454 (Representatives Henderson, K. Anderson, Frelich, Hauck, Kasper)
(Senators Paulson, Clemens)
AN ACT to create and enact a new section to chapter 23-12 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to an opt-out procedure for required vaccines.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 23-12 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and
enacted as follows: Required vaccine - Opt-out procedure. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a state agency, political subdivision, or any other government entity may not require an individual to take or receive a vaccine or similar product used to prevent a disease, unless there is a procedure made available for an opt-out for health, religious, or philosophical reasons. 2. For a school, day care center, child care facility, head start program, or nursery school, section 23-07-17.1 must be followed for vaccines and vaccine opt-out procedures.

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____________________________ Speaker of the House

____________________________ President of the Senate

____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

____________________________ Secretary of the Senate

This certifies that the within bill originated in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as House Bill No. 1454.

House Vote: Senate Vote:

Yeas 59 Yeas 30

Nays 33 Nays 17

Absent 2 Absent 0

____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House
Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025. Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.

____________________________ Governor
Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025, at ________ o’clock ________M.

____________________________ Secretary of State