PRINTER'S NO. 1520
No. 1294 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY DeMEDIO, IRVIS, LAUDADIO, MANDERINO, KELLY,
A. K. HUTCHINSON, PETRARCA, GRIECO, CIMINI, D. M. O'BRIEN
AND LOGUE, JUNE 13, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, JUNE 13, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing a choice
21 of immunization for polio.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 2111, act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
25 No.175, known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," is amended
26 by adding a clause to read:
27 (c.2) The Advisory Health Board shall accept the Salk
1 vaccine as a proper substitute or equivalent for the Sabin
2 vaccine for immunization against polio. Any parent or legal
3 guardian of any child required by this, or any other act, or any
4 regulations promulgated by any State department, agency or board
5 to have his child immunized against polio, shall have the option
6 of obtaining either Salk or Sabin vaccine.
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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