CHAPTER 201

(HB 1061)

Human Papillomavirus vaccination initiative.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  offer a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination initiative, to transfer funds, and to declare an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  The Department of Health may offer human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to any woman who is at least eleven years of age and less than nineteen years of age to help protect against the virus that causes cervical cancer at an estimated cost of nine million two hundred thousand dollars. The Department of Health may expend up to four hundred thousand dollars of general funds and the Department of Social Services may expend up to one million three hundred thousand dollars of general funds from their fiscal year 2007 budgets.

     Section  2.  Whereas, this Act is necessary for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

     Signed March 16, 2007

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