N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-6.9

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 11, June 3, 2024

Section 8:57-6.9 - Required immunization; hepatitis B

(a) Each new student entering a two- or four-year institution for the first time on or after September 1, 2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit hours per semester or term shall have received three doses of a hepatitis B containing vaccine, or alternatively any two doses of a hepatitis B vaccine licensed and approved for a two dose regimen administered to the student between 11 through 15 years of age.

(b) An institution shall be prohibited from permitting a provisional period of more than nine months to complete the hepatitis B series for each new student entering a two- or four-year institution on or after September 1, 2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit hours per semester or term and who has not begun or provided documentation of the hepatitis B vaccine series, while remaining in attendance.

(c) An institution shall be prohibited from permitting a new student entering a two- or four-year institution on or after September 1, 2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit hours per semester or term and who has one documented dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, from having longer than six months to complete the three dose hepatitis B vaccine series.

(d) An institution shall be prohibited from permitting a new student entering a two- or four-year institution on or after September 1, 2008 enrolled with a course study of 12 or more credit hours per semester or term and who has presented documentation of two doses of a hepatitis B vaccine, from having longer than four months to complete the hepatitis B vaccine series.

(e) An institution shall not require a student who presents documented laboratory evidence of hepatitis B disease or immunity, constituting a medical exemption, to receive the hepatitis B vaccine.

(f) An institution shall exempt a student from the hepatitis B vaccine requirement if the student objects thereto in a written statement submitted to the institution, signed by the student or a parent or legal guardian if a minor, explaining how the administration of hepatitis B vaccine conflicts with the student's bona fide religious tenets or practices, except that a general philosophical or moral exemption to the vaccination shall not be sufficient for an exemption on religious grounds.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:57-6.9

New Rule, R.2009 d.107, effective 4/6/2009.
See: 40 N.J.R. 1962(a), 41 N.J.R. 1419(a).
Former N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.9, Provisional admission, recodified to N.J.A.C. 8:57-6.12.

The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available