The state Senate has cleared Republican-sponsored legislation â in a bipartisan vote â that would require parental consent for 12- to 17-year-olds to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Senators voted 42-0 Tuesday in favor of House Bill 96, which began as legislation to expand the number of vaccines and medications that pharmacists would be allowed to administer. The bill has been returned to the state House, where members can choose to accept the Senate addition of the parental consent language or reject it. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper briefly discussed the revamped HB96 following a July 22 of the vaccination site for the Forsyth Department of Public Health.