NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 160

HOUSE BILL 315

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE IMMUNIZATION OF CHILDREN AGAINST RUBELLA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The first sentence of G.S. 130-87 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Every child residing in this State shall be immunized against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, red measles (rubeola), and rubella, and, in addition, shall be immunized against smallpox, upon a determination by the Commission for Health Services that such immunization is in the best interest of the public health."

Sec. 2.  This act shall not require any additional State appropriation.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of April, 1977.