Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Schools and early childhood programs
shall use the official Utah School Immunization Record (USIR) form as the
record of each student's immunizations. The department shall provide copies or
electronic copies of the USIR to schools, early childhood programs, physicians,
and local health departments upon each of their requests.
(2) Each school or early childhood program
shall accept an immunization record as a certificate of immunization if:
(a) it is received from a statewide registry,
the student's former school, or the student's legally responsible
individual;
(b) it relates to a
student regarding required vaccinations that the student has received;
and
(c) it includes the date each
vaccine was administered, as verified by a licensed health care provider, an
authorized representative of a local health department, an authorized
representative of the department, a registered nurse, or a
pharmacist.
(3) The
school or early childhood program shall transfer the following information from
each certificate of immunization to the USIR:
(a) name of the student;
(b) student's date of birth;
(c) vaccine administered; and
(d) the month, day, and year each dose of
vaccine was administered.
(3)
(a)
Each school and early childhood program must maintain the following information
in the file of each enrolled student:
(i) the
completed USIR for each student;
(ii) an exemption form for each student
claiming an exemption; and
(iii)
immunity documents for each student claiming previously infection with measles,
mumps, rubella (MMR), varicella, or hepatitis A disease. The immunity documents
must include the results of serologic testing for immunity, titer testing, and
a written statement signed by a health care provider confirming that, based on
positive laboratory test results, the student does not need to receive the MMR,
varicella, or hepatitis A vaccines. Immunity through serologic testing is only
acceptable and allowed for those students who were previously infected with
measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, or hepatitis A.
(b) The school and early childhood programs
shall maintain up-to-date records of the immunization status for all students
in all grades such that it can quickly exclude all non-immunized students if an
outbreak occurs.
(c) If a student
withdraws, transfers, is promoted, or otherwise leaves school, the school or
early childhood program shall either:
(i)
return the USIR, any immunity documents, and any exemption form to the legally
responsible individual of a student; or
(ii) transfer the USIR, any immunity
documents, and any exemption form with the student's official school record to
the new school or early childhood program upon the request of the student's
legally responsible individual.
(4) A representative of the department or the
local health department may examine, audit, and verify immunization records
maintained by any school or early childhood program.
(5) Schools and early childhood programs may
meet the record keeping requirements of this section by keeping its official
school immunization records in the Utah Statewide Immunization Information
System (USIIS).
