Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS › Chapter 157 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Section 11-157-6.2 - Provisional attendance

Current through June, 2024
(a) A student or
				child who does not have evidence of all of the required immunizations may
				attend school, post-secondary school, or a child care facility provisionally
				upon submitting written evidence from a practitioner or the department stating
				that the student or child is in the process of receiving required
				immunizations. A student or child who does not have a report of physical
				examination may attend school or child care facility provisionally upon
				submitting written evidence from a practitioner stating that the student or
				child is in the process of receiving the physical examination. The failure to
				provide a report of the pre-seventh grade physical examination will not result
				in provisional attendance unless the student is first entering a Hawaii school
				in the seventh grade. A physical examination is not required for post-secondary
				school attendance. An appointment notice from a practitioner's office or the
				department shall be recognized as written evidence. A student or child without
				written evidence shall not be allowed to attend school, post-secondary school,
				or a child care facility.
(b) The
				provisional attendance period shall be no longer than three calendar months
				after the date of provisional attendance to a school or child care facility and
				no longer than forty-five calendar days after the date of provisional
				attendance to a post-secondary school.
(c) A student or child who fails to keep a
				scheduled appointment with their practitioner or the department during the
				provisional attendance period may attend school, post-secondary school, or a
				child care facility only upon submitting a new appointment notice from a
				practitioner's office or the department. Failure to keep a scheduled
				appointment or transferring schools, post-secondary schools, or child care
				facilities during the provisional attendance period does not extend the
				provisional attendance period past the periods listed in subsection
				(b).
(d) If all of the required
				immunizations cannot be completed within the provisional attendance period due
				to the required minimum intervals between doses or other medical necessity, the
				school, post-secondary school, or child care facility may extend provisional
				attendance as long as evidence is provided that appointments have been made to
				complete the required immunizations. If a student or child whose provisional
				attendance period has been extended fails to keep a scheduled appointment, he
				or she shall be excluded from school, post-secondary school, or child care
				facilities until evidence that the required immunizations have been obtained is
				presented to the school, post-secondary school, or child care
				facility.
(e) Provisional
				attendance may be suspended by the department when there is a danger or
				presence of an outbreak or epidemic from any of the communicable diseases for
				which immunization is required under this chapter until the director has
				determined that the presence or danger of the outbreak or epidemic no longer
				exists.