Georgia Code
Chapter 12 - Control of Hazardous Conditions, Preventable Diseases, and Metabolic Disorders
§ 31-12-3.1. Vaccination Registry; Reporting Requirements, Maintenance, and Use of Information

Vaccination data reporting requirements, including without limitation the types of data required to be reported and the time and manner of reporting such data, shall begin after the registry has established linkages to vaccine providers and shall be established by the department in consultation with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Georgia chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians.
without the consent of the person or the person’s parents or guardians.
History. Code 1981, § 31-12-3.1 , enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 646, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 439, § 1; Ga. L. 2021, p. 782, § 8/SB 46.
The 2021 amendment, effective May 10, 2021, rewrote subsection (e), which read: “Individually identifiable vaccination information regarding a person may be provided to the department by, or released by the department to, a local health department, hospital, physician, or other provider of medical services to the person or to a school or child care facility in which the person is enrolled if the person is 18 years of age or younger without the consent of the person or the person’s parents or guardians. All persons shall be enrolled unless a specific exemption is requested by the person or the person’s parent or guardian if the person is 18 years of age or younger. A parent or guardian may obtain and upon request to the department shall be provided with all individually identifiable vaccination registry information regarding his or her child or ward. Except as provided otherwise by this Code section, individually identifiable vaccination registry information shall be treated as confidential and shall not be released to a third party without consent of the person or the person’s parent or guardian if the person is 18 years of age or younger.”
Editor’s notes.
For application of this statute in 2020 , see Executive Order 11.20.20.01.
A listing of Executive Orders issued in 2020 can be found at https://gov.georgia.gov/executive-action/executive-orders.
Law reviews.
For note, “Who Calls the Shots?: Parents Versus the Parens Patriae Power of the States to Mandate Vaccines for Children in New York,” see 37 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 637 (2021).

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