GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 122
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE MEDICAL CONTRAINDICATIONS TO STATE-MANDATED IMMUNIZATIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 130A-156 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-156. Medical exemption.
The Commission for Health Services shall adopt by rule a
list of medical contraindications to immunizations required by G.S. 130A-152. If
a physician licensed to practice medicine in this State certifies that an
immunization required by G.S. 130A-152 a required immunization is or
may be detrimental to a person's health due to the presence of a specific
contraindication, one of the contraindications listed by the Commission,
the person is not required to receive the specified immunization as long as
the contraindication persists. The State Health Director may, upon
request by a physician licensed to practice medicine in this State, grant a medical
exemption to a required immunization for a contraindication not on the list
adopted by the Commission."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective February 1, 1990, except that the Commission for Health Services shall, upon ratification of this act, adopt rules to implement this act, which rules shall become effective February 1, 1990.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of May, 1989.