Section DHS 144.07 - Responsibilities of schools and child care centers(1) The responsibilities of schools under these rules shall be those of the local school board and the school administrator. The licensee for each child care center shall be responsible for compliance with these rules. The school or child care center shall assure compliance with s. 252.04(2), Stats.(1m) By the 15th school day after a student is admitted to a school or child care center and again by the 25th school day after a student is admitted to a school or child care center, the school or child care center shall notify the adult student or the parent of any minor student who has not submitted either written evidence of immunization or a waiver form. Notification shall include instructions for complying with the requirements of s. 252.04(2), Stats., including a list of missing immunizations, the availability of waivers for reasons of health, religion, or personal conviction, and an explanation of the penalty for noncompliance.(2) For any student who has received the first dose of each immunization required for that student's age or grade under s. DHS 144.03, but who has not received all of the required doses, the school shall obtain written evidence that the student has received the required subsequent doses of immunization as they are administered, but no later than the deadlines described in s. DHS 144.03.(3) If any minor student for whom a waiver form is not filed fails to comply with the immunization requirements described in s. DHS 144.03 by the date of admission to the school or child care center, the school or child care center may, within 60 school days of that failure to comply, notify the district attorney in writing, with the notice to include the student's name and the name and address of the student's parent, and request the district attorney to seek a court order under s. 48.13(13), Stats. The school or child care center may keep the district attorney apprised of the subsequent compliance of a student initially reported to the district attorney.(4)(a) The school and the child care center shall report to both the local health department and the department the degree of compliance with s. 252.04, Stats., and this chapter by students in that school or child care center.(b) These reports shall be in a format prescribed by the department and shall be made by schools within 40 school days after the beginning of the term and by child care centers at intervals prescribed by the department. Updated reports shall be filed by the school on students who are in the process of being immunized. These updated reports shall be filed within 10 school days after the deadlines listed in s. DHS 144.03.(5) The school and the child care center shall maintain on file the immunization history for each student and any waiver form submitted. Immunization histories shall be updated with information supplied by the local health department, parents, or private physicians.(6) The school or child care center shall maintain a current roster listing the name and immunization history of each student who does not meet all immunization requirements for that student's grade or age.(7) The immunization record of any new student who transfers from one school or child care center to another shall be forwarded to the new school or child care center within 10 school days of the request for record transfer. The records of a child care student shall be transferred to a school if requested by either the admitting school or the parent.(8) All suspected cases of diseases covered by s. 252.04(2), Stats., or this chapter which occur among students or staff shall be reported immediately by telephone to the local health department.(9) If one of the diseases covered by s. 252.04(2), Stats., or this chapter occurs in a student or staff member, the school or child care center shall assist the local health department and the department in immediately identifying any unimmunized students, notifying their parents of the possible exposure, and facilitating the disease control activities.(10) If a substantial outbreak as defined in s. DHS 144.02 (12) occurs in a school or child care center, or in the municipality in which a school or child care center is located, the school or child care center shall exclude students who have not received all required immunizations against the disease, including students in all grades who have not had 2 doses of measles vaccine, when it is an outbreak of measles that is occurring, when ordered to do so by the department. The exclusion shall last until the student is immunized or until the department determines that the outbreak has subsided.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 144.07
Cr. Register, June, 1981, No. 306, eff. 7-1-81; am. (10), Register, July, 1990, No. 415, eff. 8-1-90; corrections made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register, August, 1995, No. 476; renum. (intro.) and (1) to be (1) and (1m) and am. (1m), am. (3), (4) (intro.), (a), (5) and (7) to (9), Register, June, 1997, No. 498, eff. 7-1-97.Amended by, CR 19-079: am. (title), (1), (1m), (3), r(4) (a) (intro.), renum. (4) (a) 1. to (4) (a) and am., r. (4) (a) 2., am. (4) (b), (5) to (7), (9), (10) Register January 2023 No. 805, eff. 2/1/2023