Florida school vaccine requirements and your child’s record
The short answer for Florida
- Required for school
- Florida's Department of Health lists for kindergarten through 12th grade: 4-5 doses of DTaP, 4-5 doses of IPV, 2 doses of MMR, 3 doses of hepatitis B and 2 doses of varicella (varicella is not required if a health care provider documents a history of the disease). Source · Official page
- Get the record
- For a child's record (17 and under), contact the child's physician or the local county health department. Source · Official page
Checked 11 Nov 2026 against the Florida Department of Health pages. The federal schedule is in court: see what cdc.gov shows today and what changed.
In Florida the public online request covers adults only, so a child’s record goes through a doctor or the county health department.
Run by Florida Department of Health. Registry: Florida SHOTS. All facts on this page were checked on or after 11 Nov 2026.
From the record to the school
Get your child’s record
- How to ask Florida SHOTS' public request form provides records only for people 18 and over[S1]
- What you get Form DH 680 documents school-entry immunizations; it can be printed from SHOTS for the parent[S2]
- Wait Florida SHOTS says requests take longer than 30 days to process[S1]
- Good to know Form DH 680 is not available to the public; a licensed Florida physician, APRN or county health department completes it[S2]
Sources: S1. flshots.com/ConfidentialInfoAuth.csp, S2. floridahealth.gov/school-enrollment
School and child care rules
- Required vaccines Florida's Department of Health lists for childcare, family daycare and preschool entry: DTaP, IPV, MMR, varicella, Hib, pneumococcal conjugate (PCV15/20) and hepatitis B[S1]
- Required vaccines Seventh grade: children entering, attending or transferring to the 7th grade must also have one dose of Tdap[S1]
- Rule history The version of Rule 64D-3.046, F.A.C. (school and child care immunization requirements) in force is the one effective 2 April 2013. The Florida Administrative Register lists the Department’s proposed revisions, published 24 Aug 2026, and a notice of change to the proposal, published 30 Sep 2026; no final adoption of them is listed on the rule’s page[S2]
- Proposed change, not yet in force The Department of Health's proposed revisions to Rule 64D-3.046 (public hearing 8 Oct 2026) would remove hepatitis B, varicella, Hib and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines from the school and child care entry requirements set by Department rule; the hearing is not final adoption[S3]
Sources: S1. floridahealth.gov/parents-children-and-adolescents, S2. flrules.org/ruleNo.asp, S3. floridahealth.gov/florida-department-of-health-holds-public-hearing-on-proposed-revisions-to-school-immunization-rule
Exemptions
- Florida names a religious exemption (Form DH 681, county health department) and temporary and permanent medical exemptions (provider, on DH 680)
Sources: floridahealth.gov
Other states: Texas, California, Colorado, Wisconsin. All states.