Sec. 9. (a) The designated record keeping office shall maintain records obtained under section 7 of this chapter containing the required elements of the immunization status of an enrolled student. The information required on the certificate of immunity and the documentation of exemption, whichever applies, constitutes the required elements of an enrolled student’s immunization status. The information on the certificate of immunity and the documentation of exemption, whichever applies:

(1) is sufficient for accurate compliance with section 11 of this chapter; and

(2) must be accepted by each state educational institution for purposes of this chapter.

     (b) The department and the local health department shall, for good cause shown that there exists a substantial threat to the:

(1) health and safety of a student; or

(2) community of an educational institution;

be able to validate immunization reports by onsite reviews or examinations of nonidentifying immunization record data. This section does not independently authorize the department, a local department of health, or an agent of the state or local department of health to have access to identifying medical or academic record data of individual students attending nonaccredited private postsecondary educational institutions.

     (c) The records referred to in subsection (a) are sufficient to enable the state educational institution to generate a listing of the students who have filed documentation of exemption forms. The state educational institution shall develop sufficient plans for excluding these students from the state educational institution for the protection of these students if an outbreak of a vaccine preventable disease listed in section 2 of this chapter occurs at or near the campus of the state educational institution.

[Pre-2007 Higher Education Recodification Citation: 20-12-71-17.]

As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.281.