00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 238                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to objections to vaccines."                                                                            
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 14.07.020 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                             
04 (d)  A minor child whose parent or guardian has submitted a signed statement                                            
05 to school officials stating their objections on religious, medical, or philosophical                                    
06 grounds to immunization requirements prescribed under (a)(7) of this section is                                         
07       exempt from those requirements.                                                                                   
08    * Sec. 2. AS 14.30.125 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                                
09            (b)  A minor child whose parent or guardian has submitted a signed statement                                 
10       to school officials stating their objections on religious, medical, or philosophical                              
11       grounds to the immunization requirements under (a) of this section is exempt from                                 
12       those requirements.                                                                                               
13    * Sec. 3. AS 18.15 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                       
14            Sec. 18.15.357. Vaccine objection. A business, an employer, a state agency, a                                
15       municipality, the University of Alaska, or a school district may not require an                                   

01       individual to be vaccinated against a specific disease if the individual objects based on                         
02       religious, medical, or philosophical grounds to the administration of the vaccine. In                             
03       this section,                                                                                                     
04                 (1)  "business" has the meaning given in AS 18.35.399;                                                  
05                 (2)  "employer" has the meaning given in AS 18.60.105(a);                                               
06                 (3)  "school district" means a borough school district, a city school                                   
07       district, a regional educational attendance area, a state boarding school, and the state                          
08       centralized correspondence study program;                                                                         
09                 (4)  "state agency" has the meaning given in AS 40.21.150.                                              
10    * Sec. 4. AS 23.10 is amended by adding new sections to article 7 to read:                                           
11 Sec. 23.10.445. Vaccine objection. Unless contrary to federal law, an                                                   
12 employer may not require an employee or applicant for employment to be vaccinated                                       
13 against a specific disease as a condition of employment if the employee or applicant                                    
14 objects based on religious, medical, or philosophical grounds to the administration of                                  
15       the vaccine.                                                                                                      
16            Sec. 23.10.450. Definitions. In AS 23.10.430 - 23.10.445, "employer" includes                                
17                 (1)  a person who employs one or more other persons;                                                    
18                 (2)  the state;                                                                                         
19                 (3)  the University of Alaska;                                                                          
20                 (4)  the Alaska Railroad; and                                                                           
21                 (5)  political subdivisions of the state.                                                               
22    * Sec. 5. AS 23.10.430(c)(2) is repealed.