An Act To Decrease Cervical Cancer in Maine Girls
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 0414
Committee: Health and Human Services
Sponsors: FAIRCLOTH, SIMPSON
Amends: 20-A MRSA §6355, 22 MRSA §1066

Legislative Document 
No. 414 
H.P.330 
House of Representatives, January 29,2007 
An Act To Decrease Cervical Cancer in Maine Girls 
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative FAIRCLOTH of Bangor. 
Cosponsored by Representative SIMPSON of Auburn. 
Primed on recycled paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §6355, sub-§4 is enacted to read: 
4. Human papillomavirus immunization. The parent of a female child states in 
writing that the parent has received the information provided by the Department of Health 
and Human Services pursuant to Title 22, section 1066 regarding the connection between 
the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer and the availability, effectiveness and 
potential risks of the human papillomavirus vaccine, and that the parent has elected for 
the child not to receive the human papiIlomavirus vaccine. 
Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §1066 is enacted to read: 
§1066. Human papillomavirus vaccine information 
No later than January 1, 2008, the department shall identify informational materials 
regarding the connection between human papillomavirus and cervical cancer and the 
availability, effectiveness and potential risks of the human papillomavirus vaccine. The 
materials must include, but are not limited to, the vaccine information statement for the 
human papillomavirus vaccine provided by the United States Department of Health and 
Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The department shall 
provide the materials to all family physicians and pediatricians licensed in the state and to 
all public and private schools in the State, as defined in Title 20-A, section 1, that provide 
grade 6 instruction. The department shall also post the materials on its publicly accessible 
website. 
Sec. 3. Immunization against human papillomavirus. The Department of 
Health and Human Services and the Department of Education shall amend the rules 
regarding immunization requirements for school children to require, effective for the start 
of the 2008-2009 school year, that every female child entering grade 6 for the first time 
be immunized against the human papillomavirus. The rules must allow for an exemption 
from the human papillomavirus immunization requirement in accordance with the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 6355, subsection 4. 
Sec. 4. Effective date. Section 1 of this Act takes effect August 1,2008. 
SUMMARY 
This bill requires a female child entering grade 6 for the first time to be immunized 
against the human papillomavirus, the virus that causes cervical cancer. This requirement 
takes effect with the start of the 2008-2009 school year. The bill provides an exemption 
from this requirement for a child whose parent states in writing that the parent has 
received information provided by the Department of Health and Human Services 
regarding cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus and has chosen for the child not 
to receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. 
The bill requires that the department 
identifY that information by January 1, 2008, make it available to family physicians, 
pediatricians and public and private schools that serve grade 6 and post the material on 
the department's publicly accessible website.