SENATE BILL 58
51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013
INTRODUCED BY
Sue Wilson Beffort
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AMENDING THE IMMUNIZATION ACT TO REQUIRE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO REPORT IMMUNIZATION TO THE IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 24-5-8 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2004, Chapter 45, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:
"24-5-8. REPORTING.--Physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care providers [may] shall report on immunization to the immunization registry unless the patient, or the patient's guardian if the patient is a minor, refuses to allow reporting of this information."
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