Check an enrollment against a school vaccination requirement

Key facts

Human involvement

Yellow · Close supervision

How AI is used

From the enrollment and the immunization record, list the student's grade, each required vaccine the file shows, the date of the first day of school, and whether a medical exemption is on the file. Do not decide that the student may attend, and do not write an exclusion notice.

What the lawyer must review

You decide whether the record meets the requirement of the student's State, and you write any exclusion notice. New York's school-vaccine page says children in day care and pre-kindergarten through grade 12, in public, private, and religious schools, must receive all required doses on the recommended schedule to attend or remain in school, unless they have a valid medical exemption. A medical exemption is allowed when a child has a medical condition that prevents the child from receiving a vaccine. There is no nonmedical exemption. Within 14 days of the first day of school or day care, a parent must show proof of up-to-date vaccinations or provide a valid medical exemption. A child who is unvaccinated or overdue must receive at least the first dose of each required vaccine within the first 14 days, and subsequent doses within a 14-day period of when they are due. The page lists diphtheria and tetanus toxoid-containing vaccine and pertussis vaccine, hepatitis B, measles mumps and rubella, polio, and varicella for day care, pre-kindergarten, and school; Tdap for grades 6 to 12 and meningococcal conjugate vaccine for grades 7 to 12, with an additional MenACWY dose for grade 12 on or after the 16th birthday; and Haemophilus influenzae type b and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for day care and pre-kindergarten. The Department of Health's schools immunization page says Public Health Law section 2164 requires the annual school immunization survey, including for pre-kindergarten programs housed in a school. Another State's list, grace period, and exemption rule can differ. Use that State's health department page before applying this list outside New York.

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