1. (a) At a minimum, the immunizations required in this section are required for all children in the State of Texas, including children admitted, detained, or committed in Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation, and Texas Youth Commission facilities.

2. (b) The immunization requirements also apply to all children and students entering, attending, enrolled in, and/or transferring to child-care facilities, public schools, private schools, nonpublic schools, or parochial schools, for example:

   1. (1) preschool programs and kindergartens associated with elementary schools;
   2. (2) elementary schools, junior high or middle schools, and high schools;
   3. (3) academies;
   4. (4) colleges (for students pursuing a course of study in an animal or human health profession);
   5. (5) universities (for students pursuing a course of study in an animal or human health profession); and
   6. (6) schools for the blind, deaf, and individuals with mental illness or mental retardation.
3. (c) The immunization requirements are adopted as a statewide control measure for communicable disease as defined in Health and Safety Code, §81.081 and §81.082. The requirements are adopted as an instruction of the department as that term is used in the Texas Health and Safety Code, §81.007.

Source Note:The provisions of this §97.61 adopted to be effective September 1, 1978, 3 TexReg 2141; amended to be effective July 23, 1990, 15 TexReg 3853; amended to be effective June 27, 1995, 20 TexReg 4344; amended to be effective April 28, 1997, 22 TexReg 3521.