Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1428 – A. Each licensed specialized provider or child-placing agency, before November first of each year, shall make available to each child’s parent or legal guardian and to each youth age
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1428
- Child: means a person who has not reached age eighteen or otherwise been legally emancipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1403
- Child-placing agency: means any institution, society, agency, corporation, facility, person or persons, or any other group engaged in placing children in foster care or with substitute parents for temporary care or for adoption, or engaged in assisting or facilitating the adoption of children, or engaged in placing youth in transitional placing programs, but shall not mean a person who may occasionally refer children for temporary care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1403
- Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1403
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- relative: means a natural or adopted child or grandchild of the caregiver or a child in the legal custody of the caregiver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1403
- Specialized provider: means a child-placing agency, maternity home, or residential home. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1403
- Youth: means a person not less than sixteen years of age nor older than twenty-one years of age. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1403
A. Each licensed specialized provider or child-placing agency, before November first of each year, shall make available to each child‘s parent or legal guardian and to each youth aged eighteen or above information relative to the risks associated with influenza and the availability, effectiveness, known contraindications, and possible side effects of the influenza immunization. Such information shall include the causes and symptoms of influenza, the means by which influenza is spread, and the places where a parent or legal guardian may obtain additional information and where a child or youth may be immunized against influenza. Such information shall be updated annually if new information on such disease is available.
B.(1) The Louisiana Department of Health shall develop and provide information on influenza immunization to the Department of Children and Family Services. The Department of Children and Family Services shall provide such information to each licensed specialized provider or child-placing agency, which shall make the information available to each child’s parent or legal guardian and to each youth aged eighteen or above pursuant to Subsection A of this Section.
(2) The Louisiana Department of Health and the Department of Children and Family Services shall determine respectively the most cost-effective and efficient means of distributing such information.
C. The Department of Children and Family Services, in consultation with the Louisiana Department of Health, shall establish by rules and regulations all guidelines and procedures for carrying out the provisions of this Section in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.
D. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require any specialized provider or child-placing agency, the Department of Children and Family Services, or the Louisiana Department of Health to provide or pay for immunizations against influenza.
Acts 2009, No. 343, §1; Acts 2013, No. 179, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2014; Acts 2014, No. 868, §5, eff. Oct. 1, 2014; Acts 2016, No. 502, §1.