March 11, 2015 Update
Dear NVIC Advocacy Team Members,
The war on families making selective and informed vaccination
decisions continues to rage in state legislatures across the country. As of
March 11, 2015, NVIC is tracking 110 bills across 36 states! [Scroll down to
see a list of all the bills.]
There is no coincidence regarding common bill language removing
rights appearing in bills across the country.
This is an orchestrated legislative effort by those who want to force
vaccination. Deadlines to file bills are
happening now and committee hearings are starting to kick into full gear. Some
bills are surging forward and immediate action is needed while in other states,
active opposition and education has made a profound impact to slowing the bills
down.
ELIMINATING
AND RESTRICTING VACCINE EXEMPTIONS
Hearings
to remove philosophical/conscientious exemptions to vaccine mandates have
already taken place in Washington and Oregon. California, Maine,
Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Vermont all have bills already filed or
press announcements of bills about to be filed to remove
philosophical/conscientious exemptions. Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota and
Texas have bills to substantially restrict philosophical/conscientious
exemptions.
Religious
exemptions are also under attack. Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Texas and
Vermont have bills filed or announced to eliminate religious exemptions, and Illinois,
New Mexico and Texas have bills filed or announced to unconstitutionally
restrict religious exemptions.
EXPANDED
VACCINE MANDATES
Fifteen
states have bills filed to expand vaccine mandates. These include Connecticut,
Florida, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
What
is so disturbing about the Texas and Vermont bills are the vaccine mandates are
for school employees, and there are no philosophical or religious exemptions
allowed. These are the first states to go after teachers, school administrators
and school staff. Nothing like this has been passed before.
It
is very concerning that Hawaii, New York and Texas have bills filed to allow
some minor children to consent to their own vaccines behind their parents’
backs without their parents’ knowledge or consent. California already has this
language in statute. This is in violation with federal law that requires
parents to get Vaccine Information Statements so they can make an informed
decision.
POLICE
AND EMERGENCY POWERS
Two
states, Arizona and Texas, have bills that affect police and emergency powers.
The Texas bill gives the police the power to forcibly detain people only
suspected of having been exposed to an infectious disease and eliminates the
protective requirement for a warrant.
EXPAND
AND FORCE INTRUSIVE VACCINE TRACKING AND VACCINE DATA SHARING
11
states, Arizona, Idaho, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
New York, South Dakota, Texas, and Vermont all have bills filed to require or
expand vaccine status tracking in most cases without knowledge or consent to be
used as mandatory vaccine enforcement systems.
PUBLICALLY
PUBLISH EXEMPTION AND VACCINATION RATES
Five
states, Arizona, Maryland, Missouri, Oregon, South Dakota, and Texas have bills
filed to publically release vaccination and exemption rates by areas as small
as individual schools and day care facilities to create an even more divisive,
discriminatory and prejudicial environment towards children with vaccine
exemptions.
Isolating
and marginalizing healthy children whose parents don’t agree with all
government mandated vaccines is un-American.
These bills create an environment conducive to pitting parent against
parent and child against child in an attempt to use community peer pressure as
a club to coerce parents to vaccinate against their conscience and religious
beliefs.
These
bills have nothing to do with public health and protecting immune compromised
students when you consider the following facts:
Some
people are non-responders to some vaccines and vaccine effectiveness for some
vaccines, especially for pertussis containing vaccines, wanes rapidly. Some
students are provisionally enrolled and not fully vaccinated. Federal law, the
McKinney-Vento Act, requires that homeless students be allowed to attend school
without proof of immunizations. There
are no requirements that teachers, staff, and administration be vaccinated with
the same childhood vaccine schedule. These all are people who are no different
immunologically than a healthy student with a vaccine exemption and yet they
represent a much larger percentage of the school population than the students
with a vaccine exemption targeted by these bills.
On
the other hand, students with active HIV infections are not only allowed to
attend school, their confidentiality of their infection status is protected in
state and federal law. Students who are
vaccinated with live viral vaccines experience viral shedding and can infect
susceptible individuals for a period of several weeks post vaccination. Some people who are vaccinated still get the
illness while some have subclinical infections and can still transmit vaccine
preventable diseases and not show symptoms because the vaccine suppresses
them.
If
this is all about protecting health, where are all the bills requiring
disclosures about all of the above to parents?
WHAT
CAN YOU DO?
Assess what
you are up against in your state. Log into the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org and look below to
see a snapshot of what bills are currently filed in your state.
First,
contact your own legislators and their staff, and then ask your friends and
family to do the same.
Immediately
contact your state legislators and connect to them from your heart about
why these bills can hurt your family. Do not wimp out and just send an email if
there is any way possible you can meet with them in person or talk on the phone
to them. Make them look into your eyes or hear your voice when you sincerely
tell them about vaccine reactions and health concerns for your family, how you
and your children have been treated by doctors and your school over this issue,
why you delay or decline vaccines, and why they may want to preserve this right
for themselves and their own family in the future.
If you
follow a non-pharmaceutically based model of health care, tell them why.
Educate them. You have to connect to them on a personal level so they can get
this. Find out what other bills they have sponsored so you can find
common ground about things you both care and agree about to break the ice. We
are fighting a very powerful pharma/medical forced vaccination lobby, but they
don’t have these personal connections that constituents have.
Please
register for the NVIC Advocacy Portal if you haven’t already and make it a
habit to log in frequently to stay updated and learn what you can do to help
with each bill in your state. Registration is required so we can help
connect you with your legislators.
Check the bill status on the NVIC Advocacy Portal
to see if you have any upcoming hearings on the bills and make every effort to
attend the hearing and register your position on the bill and offer written
and/or oral testimony.
Additionally, one of the most helpful
additional things you can do is to take proactive steps to reach out into your
community to your local supportive health care practitioners, parenting groups,
political groups, natural health websites and blogs, and friends and family
asking them to share this information with their contacts so they can
communicate with their legislators too.
Keep the media honest! If you see an article or
news show somewhere with misinformation, take the time to comment, submit a
letter, and reach out to news editors to correct the misinformation.
Do not let
these decisions be made for you by those whose power, positions or profit are
dependent on forced vaccination.
LEGISLATIVE
EDUCATION ACTION NEEDED NOW
1) Register/Login
to the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org.
2) Lookup
your state legislators and their contact information. Click on “Check
What is Happening in Your State” on the home page or “My State” on the STATE
TEAMS Tab. Your personal state legislators (House, Senate, Governor and
Lieutenant Governor) are listed on the right side of the page. Click on them
one at a time to display their contact information.
3) Choose
how you would like to deliver your message. The suggested modes of
communication below are listed in the order of being more likely to be more
impactful on educating your legislator. Make the personal appointments. Please don’t think signing a petition is going
to change anything.
a) Make an appointment for a direct personal visit;
b) Make an appointment to talk directly in a personal phone call;
c) Make an appointment to talk in person to a legislative aide;
d) Call and talk to a legislative aide to relay a message; or
e) Send an email through web contact forms or legislative email address.
4) Suggested talking points for
state legislators:
Introduce yourself and identify yourself as a constituent. (If this is a
meeting or a phone call, ask them if they agree with the statement that nobody
should be forced to submit to any medical procedure, including vaccination,
which carries the risk of injury or death.)
Share that you are very concerned about some of the divisive one-sided
conversations and bills being filed right now regarding vaccination exemption
rights (or bills filed in your state).
Explain why it is important to your family to be able to delay or decline
vaccination. This is where you could share your vaccine reaction,
harassment, or vaccine failure story to personalize your communication.
Explain that there are some very important reasons why legally protecting the
right to informed consent to vaccination without penalty by the state should be
a priority and these crucial points have been left out of the conversation by
forced vaccination proponents.
-
Vaccines
are pharmaceutical products that cause injury and death for some. The United
States Government has paid out more than $3 billion dollars to vaccine victims.
Many more people have adverse reactions.
Nobody can predict who will be harmed from vaccines.
-
Vaccines
manufacturers and the doctors who administer vaccines are
completely shielded from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths.
-
Vaccines fail sometimes
where even fully vaccinated people become infected. Nobody can
predict who will or will not respond to vaccines.
-
Children
today receive 69 doses of vaccines for 16 different viral and bacterial
illnesses which more than doubles the government childhood schedule of 34 doses of 11
different vaccines in the year 2000. A vaccine exemption is filed
regardless of whether the exemption is filed for one dose or all doses. 35
doses and 5 more unique vaccines have been added to the schedule in the last 15
years. Those supporting forced vaccination are being dishonest by not
acknowledging the exploding vaccine schedule while sounding alarms over small
increases in overall non-medical exemptions.
-
There are
hundreds of new vaccines in development including some of the following in
clinical trials: HIV, herpes, E. coli, dengue fever, avian influenza, smallpox,
tuberculosis, typhoid, norovirus, cholera, smoking cessation, syphilis, and
gonorrhea. If vaccine manufactures and others who profit from forced
vaccination convince legislators take away our right to delay or decline a
vaccine now, what will our future look like?
-
In
the past 5 years, drug makers have paid the U.S. Government $19.2 billion in
criminal and civil FRAUD penalties. Skepticism of the pharmaceutical
industry is well deserved, and it doesn’t imply a skepticism of science.
-
Physicians,
in the American Medical Association Code of Ethics, affirm philosophical and
religious exemptions for themselves. See Opinion 9.133
Routine Universal Immunization of Physicians. Parents should have
that same right.
5) Refer to NVIC’s
“Reforming Vaccine Policy and Law” guide for answers to questions your
legislators may have. The fully referenced version can be found on
our site posted at: http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/Reforming-Vaccine-Policy---Law-Guide.aspx. You can include this
link in your letters as well.
6) Refer to “Measles in Disneyland:
Third MMR Shot and Vaccine Exemption Ban?” by NVIC’s President
Barbara Loe Fisher for some illuminating insight into facts that need to be exposed
about the California measles outbreak and other vaccine failures.
http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/January-2015/measles-in-disneyland-third-mmr-shot-and-vaccine.aspx
7)
Please
forward this email to family and friends and ask them to share their concerns
with their legislators as well. You can post the link to this alert on social
media: http://www.nvicadvocacy.org/members/National/ActionAlertDetails.aspx?itemid=649&Page=True
State
|
Bill
Number
|
Date
Posted
|
Position
|
Status
|
Title
|
AR
|
HB 1550
|
3/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Passed the House, referred
to Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor
|
Removes
consent for reporting adult vaccinations to the department and registry
|
AZ
|
HB 2466
|
2/17/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and assigned to
the Education Committee
|
Requires
schools to post immunization rates of pupils enrolled at the school
|
AZ
|
SB 1398
|
2/4/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and assigned to
rules committee
|
Removes
law that allows parents who do not vaccinate their children to be foster
parents
|
AZ
|
SB 1311
|
2/3/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Referred to Rules and
Health and Human Services Committee
|
Makes
changes to current law concerning public health emergencies
|
CA
|
AB 1117
|
3/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Read first time on 3/2/2015
|
A
bill to improve vaccination rates for two year old children in Medi-Cal
managed care
|
CA
|
SB 277
|
3/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Hearing scheduled for
Senate Health Committee, 4/9/2015
|
Eliminates
the personal belief exemption in California
|
CA
|
SB 792
|
3/2/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/27/2015
|
Prohibits
day care providers from hiring anyone who has not been vaccinated with 3
vaccines
|
CO
|
SB 077
|
3/9/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Scheduled for a hearing in
House Public Health Care and Human Services Committee, 3/17/15
|
Establishes
the Parent's Bill of Rights
|
CO
|
6 CCR 1009-2
|
3/2/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Scheduled for public
hearing 4/15, written comments by 4/9
|
Health
Dept. rules to implement HB 1288 concerning filing of personal belief
exemptions
|
CT
|
HB 5448
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
In the Joint Committee on
Public Health
|
Requires
health care providers be vaccinated for flu
|
CT
|
HB 6949
|
3/3/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 3/3/2015 and
referred to the Joint Committee on Public Health
|
Requires
notarization and education for religious belief exemptions
|
FL
|
HB 411/SB 332
|
3/9/2015
|
WATCH
|
HB 411 passed HC
Appropriations, now in Health and Human Services Committee
|
Changes
to existing pneumococcal vaccine requirements for nursing home residents
|
GA
|
HB 504
|
3/5/2015
|
WATCH
|
House substitute adopted
3/3/2015
|
Expands
the list of vaccines that can be administered by pharmacists
|
HI
|
HB 253
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Passed Committee on Consumer
Protection and Commerce
|
Allows
pharmacists to administer any vaccine to minors 14 and older without parental
consent
|
HI
|
HB 458
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Reported out of the House
Education Committee 3/6/2015
|
Requires
schools to annually provide information on HPV, DTaP, flu and meningococcal
vaccines
|
ID
|
S 1121
|
3/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Read 2nd time on 3/6/2015,
filed for 3rd reading
|
Allows
immunization records in the tracking system to be shared with Idaho Health
Data Exchange
|
IL
|
SB 1410
|
3/5/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Assigned to the Executive
Committee on 3/3/2015
|
Severely
Restricts Religious Exemption to Vaccine Mandates
|
IL
|
HJR26, HR 144
|
3/4/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Placed on resolutions
calendar 3/4/2015
|
Resolution
to encourage higher rates of vaccinations
|
IL
|
SB 751
|
3/4/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Postponed in Judiciary
Committee 3/3/2015
|
Provides
liability protections to dentists who administer vaccines
|
IL
|
HR 184
|
2/27/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and referred to
rules on 2/25/2015
|
Resolution
to encourage vaccines for children, adolescents, and adults
|
IL
|
SB 1776
|
2/24/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/20/2015
|
Restricts
the religious exemption to vaccination by changing the language
|
IN
|
SB 461
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to House Public
Health Committee on 3/3/2015
|
Adds
Hepatitis A Vaccine mandate, removes parent ability to provide history of
chickenpox
|
IN
|
HB 1359
|
2/26/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Died on the house floor
2/24/2015
|
Sets
goal of 80% vaccination rate for HPV, moves vaccine law from education code
to health code
|
MD
|
SB 597
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
In Senate Education, Health
and Environmental Affairs Committee
|
Changes
current law that allows people who work in resident institutions to refuse
flu shots
|
MD
|
HB 687
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Hearing scheduled for
3/16/2015 in Health and Government Operations Committee
|
Eliminates
the religious belief exemption to vaccination in Maryland
|
MD
|
SB 598
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
In Senate Education,
Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee
|
Requires
all vaccines administered be reported to the tracking system, ImmuNet
|
ME
|
LD 606
|
3/4/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to Health and
Human Services Committee
|
Eliminate
personal belief exemptions
|
ME
|
LD 471
|
3/4/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to Health and
Human Services 3/3/2015
|
Requires
doctor certification for parents using a personal belief exemptions for
school/child care
|
ME
|
LD 473
|
2/27/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to the Committee
on Health and Human Services 2/26/2105
|
Mandates
new vaccines for TDaP and Meningitis
|
MN
|
SF 380/HF 393
|
2/3/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and referred to
Senate Health, Human Services and Housing Committee
|
Eliminates
conscientious belief exemption, replaces with a PBE that requires a physician
statement
|
MO
|
HB 976/SB 533
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
In Children and Families
Committee
|
Requires
day care centers and preschools inform parents if a child attending has an
exemption
|
MO
|
SB 558
|
2/27/2015
|
WATCH
|
Introduced on 2/26/2015
|
Requires
LTC facilities offer flu vaccines and keep a record of who accepts and who
declines
|
MO
|
SB 329
|
2/14/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to Senate
Veterans' Affairs and Health Committee on 2/12/15
|
Mandates
flu vaccination for all employees working in facilities that provide medical
care
|
MO
|
HB 846
|
2/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/5/2015,
read 2nd time 2/9/2015
|
Requires
parents receive a letter from the principal if there is a nonvaccinated child
in attendance
|
MO
|
HB 670
|
1/27/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 1/26/2015
|
Requires
schools provide information on HPV Vaccines in any course in sexual education
|
MS
|
HB 130
|
2/14/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Died on the calendar
2/12/15
|
Allows
conscientious belief exemptions to vaccination for school students in MS
|
MT
|
HB 158
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Passed 3nd reading on 3/9
|
Adds
new mandates to vaccines required for school, proposed PBE removed
|
MT
|
HB 524
|
2/24/2015
|
WATCH
|
Tabled in committee
2/23/2015
|
Requires
health dept. to provide a report to the legislature with recommended vaccine
additions
|
MT
|
HB 73
|
2/21/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Tabled by the House Human
Services Committee 2/20/2015
|
Allows
disclosure of a patient's immunization record without the patient's
authorization
|
NE
|
LB 650
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Notice of hearing posted
2/25/2015
|
Encourages
all hospitals to offer TDaP vaccines to maternity patients or parents of new
babies
|
NE
|
LB 18
|
2/13/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Motion to bracket until
June 5, 2015 approved on 2/12/2015
|
Adds
meningitis vaccine requirement for students entering 7th grade and 16 year
old students
|
NH
|
HB 383
|
3/6/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Scheduled to be voted on by
the full house on 3/11
|
Adds
privacy protections to the vaccine tracking system
|
NH
|
SB 108
|
3/4/2015
|
WATCH
|
Amended in Senate Health
and Human Services Committee
|
New
mandates for tracking flu vaccination status of health care workers
|
NH
|
SB 130
|
2/14/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
In Senate Health and Human
Services Committee
|
Expands
the vaccine tracking system in NH
|
NJ
|
A3890/S2754
|
3/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
A3890 passed full assembly
and S2754 passed committee 3/9/15
|
Requires
Continuing Care Facilities to provide flu vaccine info. to older residents
|
NJ
|
S1147/A1931
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
S 1147 passed committee on
3/9/2015
|
Restricts
religious exemptions to vaccination in NJ
|
NJ
|
A1534
|
1/25/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Introduced on 1/16/2014 and
referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee, not moving
|
Provides
for a conscientious exemption to vaccination
|
NJ
|
A351
|
1/25/2015
|
WATCH
|
Introduced on 1/16/2014 and
referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee, not moving
|
Makes
changes to exemptions to vaccination
|
NJ
|
A2570
|
1/25/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Introduced on 2/10/14 and
referred to Health and Senior Services, not moving at this time
|
Eliminates
use of vaccines containing mercury over three years
|
NM
|
SB 362
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Passed the full senate on
3/5/2015
|
Removes
ability to opt out of the vaccine tracking system, adds new sections to
public health laws
|
NM
|
SB 121
|
3/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Passed the senate on 3/5/15
|
Establishes
the Vaccine Purchasing Act
|
NM
|
HB 522
|
2/23/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/20/2015
|
Restricts
the current religious belief exemption in NM
|
NV
|
SB 117
|
2/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and referred to
Senate Health and Human Services Committee
|
Mandates
HPV and Meningitis Vaccines for public and private school students
|
NY
|
A2447/A1706
|
3/9/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Introduced and referred to
Assembly Health Committee
|
Bills
to prohibit the use of and label vaccines that are genetically modified
|
NY
|
A5399
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/20/15 and
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
|
provide
personal income tax exemptions for dependents receiving recommended
vaccinations
|
NY
|
A 943
|
2/24/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Enacting clause stricken,
died
|
Provides
for philosophical exemptions to required vaccination for school students
|
NY
|
S 3899
|
2/24/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and referred to
the Committee on Higher Education
|
Allows
pharmacists to administer flu vaccines to children 9 and older
|
NY
|
S 3900
|
2/24/2015
|
WATCH
|
Introduced and referred to
the Senate Higher Education Committee on 2/20/2015
|
Allows
pharmacists to administer all ACIP recommended vaccines to adults
|
NY
|
S 3898
|
2/24/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and referred to
Senate Health Committee 2/20/2015
|
Requires
all vaccines administered to adults be entered into the tracking system
|
NY
|
S 2712/A 1528
|
2/1/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced and referred to
Senate and Assembly Health Committee
|
HPV
Vaccines for minors without parental consent or knowledge
|
NY
|
A 0224
|
1/12/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Filed on Jan. 7, 2015 and
referred to the Assembly Committee on Labor
|
Prohibits
mandatory flu vaccination as a condition of employment
|
NY
|
A 791
|
1/12/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 1/7/2015 and
referred to Assembly Health Committee
|
Adds
meningitis vaccine requirement for 6th and 11th grade students
|
NY
|
S 509/ A 1822
|
1/12/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 1/7/2015,
1/13/2015 and referred to Senate and Assembly Health Committee
|
Adds
HPV Vaccine mandate for school children entering 6th grade in New York
|
OH
|
SB 121
|
3/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 3/9/2015
|
Adds
a meningitis vaccine requirement for school children
|
OK
|
HB 1529
|
2/24/2015
|
WATCH
|
Introduced and referred to
rules
|
Clarifies
language in the OK State law relating to immunizations
|
OR
|
SB 673
|
3/9/2015
|
WATCH
|
Hearing Scheduled in Senate
Health Care Committee, 3/16/2015
|
Allows
dentists to administer vaccines
|
OR
|
SB 442
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
In the Senate Committee on
Health Care
|
Eliminate
non medical exemptions to vaccination
|
OR
|
SB 505
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Scheduled for work session
in the Senate Health Committee 3/9/2015
|
Requires
all hospitals in OR to offer flu vaccines to patients 65 and older
|
OR
|
SB 895
|
3/8/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to Senate
Education Committee 3/6/2015
|
Requires
schools to post the number of children exempted from vaccinations
|
PA
|
SR 27
|
3/4/2015
|
WATCH
|
Referred to Senate
Appropriations
|
Resolution
to study and make recommendations concerning youth vaccinations
|
PA
|
TBA
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2/21/2015
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OPPOSE
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Announced, not filed as of
2/14/2015
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Eliminates
the personal belief exemption in PA
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PA
|
SB 407
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2/5/2015
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OPPOSE
|
Introduced and referred to
Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee
|
Comply
with ACIP recommendations for flu vaccine for children, using schools to give
flu vaccines
|
RI
|
S 381
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2/26/2015
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OPPOSE
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Introduced on 2/25/2015 and
referred to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
|
Eliminates
the religious belief exemption
|
SC
|
H 3204/ SB 278
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3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
H 3204 scheduled for floor
debate 3/17/2015
|
Allows
Dept. of Health to offer HPV Vaccine to students enrolling in 7th grade
|
SD
|
HB 1059
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3/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Amended and passed the full
senate 3/5/2015, house concurred with amendments 3/9/15
|
Requires
immunization records be shared by health care providers, government agencies
and schools
|
TN
|
HB 458/SB 513
|
2/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/10/2015
|
Mandates
all college students living in on-campus housing be vaccinated for
meningococcal disease
|
TX
|
HB 1593
|
3/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to the House
Public Education Committee 3/9/15
|
Requires
all public schools provide parents the number of students enrolled not fully
vaccinated
|
TX
|
HB 1674
|
3/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to the House
Public Health Committee 3/9/15
|
Requires
physician counseling for conscientious and religious belief exemption
|
TX
|
SB 1114
|
3/10/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Filed 3/9/2015
|
Mandatory
vaccines for all school employees, no religious or conscientious exemptions
|
TX
|
HB 2474
|
3/7/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Filed on 3/5/2015
|
Requires
reporting of exemption information
|
TX
|
SB 29/ HB 465
|
3/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Left pending in Public
Health Committee for 3/3/2015
|
Makes
inclusion into vaccine tracking system automatic & REMOVES current opt-in
consent requirement
|
TX
|
SB 538
|
3/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Left pending in committee
after hearing on 3/4/2105.
|
Expands
police powers to detain individuals suspected of exposure to communicable
diseases
|
TX
|
HB 2105
|
3/2/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Filed on 3/2/2105
|
Requires
notification when a not fully vaccinated child is attending schools, allows
for transfers
|
TX
|
HB 2006
|
2/26/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/26/2015
|
Eliminates
Conscientious Exemptions to Vaccination
|
TX
|
SB 547
|
2/19/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to Senate Health
and Human Services on 2/18/15
|
Requires
posting of exemption numbers on the Internet by schools and the Dept. of
Health
|
TX
|
HB 212
|
2/14/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to Juvenile
Justice & Family Issues Committee
|
Allows
minors 14 and older in the Texas Juvenile Justice System to consent to vaccination
|
TX
|
HB 1185
|
2/6/2015
|
WATCH
|
Filed 2/5/2015
|
Adds
advance practice nurses to those who can sign a medical exemption in TX
|
TX
|
SB 298
|
1/29/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Referred to Senate
Education Committee
|
Adds
new meningitis vaccine mandate for public school students
|
VA
|
SB 1083/HB 2194
|
2/13/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
House HWI Subcommittee #3
recommends laying the bill on the table
|
Adds
new mandate for meningococcal conjugate vaccine for 6th and 12th grade
students
|
VT
|
H98 / S53
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Hearings held in House
Human Services, 2/18/15 and 2/25/2015
|
Allows
access to vaccination records by school administrators, allows sharing for
research
|
VT
|
H 266
|
2/23/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/20/2015
|
Requires
all school students, teachers, administrators, and staff members to be fully
vaccinated
|
VT
|
S9
|
2/21/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Favorable reports from
Judiciary and Appropriations Committees
|
S9
"Child Protection Bill"
|
VT
|
H212
|
2/14/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/13/2015 and
referred to the House Committee on Health Care
|
Eliminates
both the religious and philosophical belief exemptions in VT
|
VT
|
S87
|
2/13/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Introduced on 2/11/15 and
referred to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare
|
Eliminates
the philosophical belief exemption
|
WA
|
SB 5143
|
3/9/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Passed the full senate, in
the house and referred to House Health Care & Wellness Committee
|
Education
for expecting parents regarding recommended vaccines
|
WA
|
HB 2009
|
3/6/2015
|
OPPOSE
|
Waiting to be heard by the
full house
|
Eliminates
personal belief exemptions
|
WA
|
HB 2108
|
3/4/2015
|
SUPPORT
|
Introduced on 2/12/2015
|
Prevents
the dept. from denying a license to serve foster children for not being
vaccinated for flu
|
WV
|
SB 286
|
3/10/2015
|
WATCH
|
Hearing scheduled in
Judiciary Committee 3/10/15
|
Concerning
authority of the commissioner and Immunization Officer to grant and revoke
exemptions
|
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