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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
VACCINES: AN ATTORNEY’S VIEWPOINT
VACCINES: AN ATTORNEY’S VIEWPOINT
You Cannot Generalize Pro or Con About All Vaccines
James Robert Deal J.D.
The report below was recently sent to every representative and senator in the Washington legislature and to all the newspapers in Washington. Attorney James Deal believes that the personal or philosophical objection will be retained at the state level.
“They have all the money, but we have all the good ideas. If we persevere, we will succeed.” ~ James Robert Deal, J.D.
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Anti-vaxxers oppose all vaccines. Pro-vaxxers favor all vaccines. No, it is not that simple. Pro-vaxxers admit that certain groups should not receive certain vaccines and that vaccine injury does happen, although it is “rare”.
Most so-called anti-vaxxers actually favor some vaccines but oppose others. Most oppose giving many vaccines all at one time. Most say they are only asking for safer vaccines.
Amid the name calling, there is a reasonable middle ground. Dr. Mark Geier, M.D., Ph.D., associated with Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health, author of over a hundred peer reviewed journal articles, is a moderate we should pay attention to. (Go to YouTube and search for “Dr. Mark Geier Thimerosal”.)
Dr. Geier supports the measles-only vaccine, but he opposes the MMR, measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, because it has caused confirmed adverse reactions and death. Likewise, Dr. Gregory Poland, of the Mayo Clinic holds that the MMR is largely ineffective.
It is lazy language to say that vaccines are “safe and effective”, because that implies that all vaccines are safe and effective for all people. In fact, some vaccines have done great harm. If you doubt this, read the findings of the Vaccine Court, which has paid out around $3.0 billion to children for adverse reactions which admits were caused by vaccines. Go to www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/opinion-search and search for “measles-mumps-rubella” or “influenza”. And read the package inserts that come with vaccine boxes. You may also read them online at www.immunize.org/packageinserts
In Europe only the polio vaccine is mandatory. Dr. Geier supports vaccination against polio. However, he is adamantly opposed to flu vaccines. The flu vaccine given almost universally uses Thimerosal as a preservative. Each dose of Thimerosal contains 25 micrograms of ethyl mercury. Multiplied by Avogadro’s Number, 25 mcg = 75 quadrillion atoms of mercury.
25 x 10-6 / 200 x 6.02 x 10-23
10-6 x 10-23 = 10-17
25 / 200 x 6.02 = .7525
.7525 x 10-17 = 7.5 x 10-16 = 75 x 10-15 =
75,000,000,000,000,000 = 75 quadrillion
The only safe amount of mercury is zero, and using mercury as a preservative is reckless, especially since it is given yearly, even to pregnant mothers, even though the package insert admits that the MMR has not been tested for fetal safety in pregnant women. Mercury passes through the placenta and into the fetus. There are flu vaccines which are mercury free.
The flu vaccine is big business, particularly the ones containing mercury. Some 300 million doses are sold, while only 20 million doses of all other vaccines are sold. In 1986 the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Programmade vaccine manufacturers immune from most liability, and in 2011 the Supreme Court twisted the plain language of the Vaccine Act to make vaccine manufacturers, hospitals, and physicians completely immune from absolutely ALL liability, reasoning that vaccines in general – using the language of the Court – are “unavoidably unsafe”.Dr. Geier points out that all flu vaccines are illegal. All vaccines must pass two double blind tests for safety and effectiveness. Because a new vaccine is developed each year in advance of the flu season, and because each vaccine assumes a prediction of which strains of flue will be present, there is no time to two double blind studies, which would take several years.
Our vaccines can contain aluminum, formaldehyde, MSG, antibiotics, and monkey kidney cells. The effort to develop safe and effective vaccines should continue, however, we must admit that we are still at a primitive stage in the development of vaccines, which is why mandating vaccination makes little sense.
The unvaccinated are blamed for spreading disease, however, every person injected with the MMR and other attenuated live virus vaccines develops a vaccine version of the disease, sheds viruses, and can infect others. It is not only the unvaccinated who are spreading measles, which is another reason why mandating vaccination makes little sense.
Measles is not a trifling malady, however, it is not Ebola. Measles cases and deaths from measles declined sharply before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. Relatively few die from measles.
Since 1986, Health & Human Services reports 669 deaths from the DTP, 84 deaths from flu vaccines, 80 deaths from the DTaP, 57 deaths from the MMR, 54 deaths from the Hepatitis B vaccine, and many more non-fatal adverse reactions. The science of vaccination is still in a primitive stage, and it is inappropriate for the state to force injection of a possibly harmful drug on behalf of mega-corporations which are completely immune from all liability for adverse reactions.
Further, one who is vaccinated sheds viruses, and so one can be infected not only by those who contract a wild case of measles but also by those recently vaccinated. Moreover, the MMR is not particularly effective “In an October 2011 outbreak in Canada, over 50% of the 98 individuals had received two doses of measles vaccine”.
The Los Angeles Times and the Everett Herald printed an article entitled “Vaccine ignorance proving deadly and contagious”. It was written not by physicians or scientists but by prominent members of the Council on Foreign Relations. It contains numerous inaccuracies – scientific, historical, and legal.
Thinking people support vaccines which are safe, effective, and necessary. Conversely, thinking people should oppose those vaccines which are not safe, not effective, or not necessary.
Law school taught me to break a question down into its component parts: Which vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary, and for whom? How deadly is the disease to be prevented? How likely are adverse reactions and how bad can they be? The CFR authors are uncritical cheer leaders for the $30 billion per year vaccine business, exhorting us to take all recommended vaccines unquestioningly and by the dozens and dozens.
The authors repeat slanders made against Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which were completely false. A recent NOVA special, “Vaccines – Calling the Shots”, repeats these now-disproven slanders, a case of lazy journalism. Recall that Wakefield wrote in the Lancet in 1998 that colitis and autism spectrum disorders are linked to the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine then in use.
Wakefield was denounced as a vaccine denier, although he supported and still supports the single dose measles vaccine, as well as other vaccines. He only opposed the MMR. Multiple vaccines given simultaneously can be more harmful than single vaccines. For questioning the safety of one vaccine, Wakefield was “lynched” by GlaxoSmithCline and the medical establishment. Wakefield’s results have been replicated in at least 28 studies done by scientists in other countries. Further, Wakefield has great insight in how to treat children who have had adverse vaccine reactions by treating the gastro-intestinal disease that accompanies adverse reactions.
Wakefield was expelled from the medical profession in Great Britain, however, John Walker-Smith, one of the co-authors of the offending 1998 study, challenged his expulsion and was recently reinstated, an indication that Wakefield could be reinstated if he applied. Wakefield works in Texas as a researcher and is suing Brian Deer, Fiona Godlee and the British Medical Journal for falsely accusing him of fraud.
The CFR authors also seem to be unaware that Wakefield was further vindicated recently when Dr. William Thompson of the CDC “came out”. Thompson was one of the authors of a CDC study which denied any causal link between vaccines and autism. Thompson admitted that in a 2004 article he and other authors had intentionally excluded already collected data, data which would have reversed their published conclusion that there is no vaccine-autism link. The mainstream media has glossed over the story of Wakefield’s vindication and Thomson’s confession.
A mother is not a vaccine denier if she questions the safety of a vaccine containing mercury, aluminum, MSG, antibiotics, eggs, or formaldehyde. Or Beta HCG hormone. Or the urabi virus . She is not a denier if her child is frail or has already had an adverse vaccine reaction and she chooses to opt her child out. She is not a denier if she questions giving children 49 injections of 14 vaccines by age six, including a vaccine at birth for hepatitis B, a disease usually infecting IV drug users. Nor is she a denier if she declines the CDC recommendation that she take the flu vaccine (containing mercury) when she is pregnant, even though the flu vaccine is not tested for safety for pregnant women and fetuses and the FDA advises it be used “only if clearly needed”.
Most are not harmed by vaccines, but some are. For proof read the decisions of the Vaccine Court, which has paid out some $3.0 billion and has acknowledged that specific vaccines have caused specific harms. See the disclosure inserts which comes in vaccine boxes. Ask your pharmacist for copies. Multi-dose flu vaccine contains a whopping 25 micrograms of mercury per dose, included as a preservative. That’s 74 quadrillion atoms of mercury. The single dose version contains under 1.0 micrograms, only 3 quadrillion atoms – still too much for me. The mercury in the flu vaccine passes through the placenta and is especially toxic to fetus and infant because their cells are dividing rapidly. Mercury affects cell division. The use of mercury as a preservative should be banned.
Some vaccines are ineffective. Discover Magazine reported that 73 percent of kids aged 7 to 10 who caught pertussis in 2012 in Washington had been fully vaccinated. The same is true for the measles vaccine. A child vaccinated with a live virus vaccine experiences a mild version of the infection and is thus contagious and infects others. Outbreaks of measles and pertussis probably come from the vaccinated, not from the unvaccinated. The artificial immunity conferred by vaccines wears off, and boosters are required, making vaccines a cash machine that generates $30 billion yearly.
A reasonable question to ask is this: If vaccines worked, those who favor indiscriminant vaccination should not object to those who choose not to be vaccinated.
The problem worsened in 1986. Before that date vaccine liability had always been decided according to state law regardless of which court the case was brought in. 1986 Congress federalized all vaccine liability claims. A law was passed requiring that all claims for vaccine harm go to a special “Vaccine Court”, where there was and is no jury and no pre-trial discovery. The statute of limitations is tricky and short, and the burden to prove a specific vaccination harmed a child is arbitrarily difficult. Vaccine makers are shielded against general liability and even for badly designing a vaccine. Claims are paid out of a fund built up with a tax on each vaccine dose sold. This has led vaccine makers to become reckless, to do insufficient testing of vaccines, and to industrialize the vaccine business.
Before 1986, vaccination had been a technology aimed at the most deadly and contagious diseases. Vaccines were to be put into use only after careful testing. Vaccines were and are needed when a potentially fatal disease progresses so fast the body cannot respond before death occurs. Because adverse reactions are inevitable, vaccines should not be used to prevent diseases which are rarely fatal. However, vaccine makers, newly exempt from all liability, turned necessary vaccination against the most deadly diseases into a mass-production money machine targeted against any and every conceivable disease.
Vaccine makers ship vaccines banned in the West to the Third World, such as the urabi strain MMR vaccine, the dangerous partially attenuated oral polio vaccine used in Pakistan, and a tetanus vaccine which causes miscarriages – none of which would inspire one to trust what vaccine makers say.
All drugs and all vaccines involve some risk which the CDC admits in its assurances that serious harm or death is rare. If the risk of taking the vaccine is greater than the risk of enduring the disease, one has the right to refuse to take the vaccine. Adults can refuse vaccination for themselves. They are the guardians of their children. They know their children’s frailties and previous bad experiences with vaccines. They have the right to opt their children out. If vaccinations work, there should be no objection if some choose not to be vaccinated.
Washington has recently made it more difficult for parents to decline vaccination for their children. Unvaccinated children can be sent home if there is an outbreak of a childhood disease in his or her school, which is odd since the CDC admits, in the case of pertussis, it is vaccinated children who are spreading the disease.
Despite all the evidence that some vaccines cause serious harm, many so-called experts exhort us that all vaccines are safe and effective, and most people stubbornly believe them. Why? Mark Twain explained it best “It’s much easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled.
Examine the evidence for yourself and do your own thinking. Administration of vaccine in mass quantities should not be mandatory, and some vaccines should be banned outright.
The connection between the fluoride scam and the vaccine scam is that they are both run by mega corporations without ethical standards.
We should not be afraid to follow the science where ever it logically goes and be outspoken on other contaminations, such as Roundup, which I just learned is sprayed on non-GMO wheat as a dessicant, so most non-organic bread is loaded with Roundup.
SOURCE: http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=12072
SOTN Editor’s Note on the above article:
The following (above)exposé on vaccine safety and their inherent dangers is noteworthy because it is written by a Washington State attorney who really understands the profound legal ramifications. James Deal, J.D. wastes no time in completely deconstructing the many false assertions that are routinely presented by those government and corporate entities promoting a Super-Vaccination agenda.
More importantly, Attorney Deal furnishes the American people with the substantive legal arguments which can serve as the basis for lawsuits against both the Pharmaceutical Industry and the U.S. Federal Government. When considered in the aggregate, the implicit points of law delineated below constitute a legal foundation for a clear-cut criminal indictment. Great harm is being inflicted on the children throughout the country by mandatory, state-sponsored vaccination programs.
No entity under the sun has the right or lawful authority to arrogate power unto itself to harm or injure, sicken or infect, paralyze or kill the people of this nation. Not only is such conduct a serious breach of the social contract, it represents a profound violation of the public trust. Vaccination programs therefore break the inviolable bond between the citizenry and the government.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Time To End the US Vaccine Program...
It Is TIME to End the US Vaccine Program.
This Dangerous "Vaccine Construction" Needs to be Disassembled
A few days ago members of the Oregon State Vote No On SB-422 coalition discovered that the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had created and funded a subversive organization for the express purpose of removing rights of Americans.
Of course it is completely illegal for groups funded by government money to lobby legislators - but that fact, apparently, has no importance to a group that ignores vaccine damage to children when all that money is coming their way.
As I said before "the most insidious United States health project out there is what's called the CDC "Vaccines For Children Program." It is the basis for making our local Public Health Agencies the street-corner drug pusher - whose activities are aimed at our children."
Just yesterday it was announced that the Oregon Senator that initiated the "Jam needles in every child" bill, called SB-422, has withdrawn the bill. Smile here.
The war is on....
What caused, you may ask, the sudden shift by the Big Pharma controlled CDC, and their constituent State/County Health Departments, to attempt to create a national MANDATORY vaccine program, for not only children, but adults? Within weeks Democratic Party legislators all across the nation were jumping to do Big Pharma's bidding. Why was that?
Here is what happened - The first Half-Billion impressions on Twitter, and a short time later, a full billion impressions called #CDCWhistleblower. In short - a billion little billboards in social media pointing out that vaccines are total crap, the whole vaccine program is a fraud, and the participants in that vaccine fraud are, literally, the scum of the earth.
You can read the simple explanation of what actually happened, how it came about, and of how that all works, by clicking here.
Five to seven million new little billboards (impressions) are being created, and delivered, EVERY DAY NOW.
Pretty good campaign - and right on target. Everyone saw where the "vaccine construction," a money grubbing group made up of Big Pharma, State/Local Health Departments, and the kiss-up-to-Big-Pharma Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) SCREAMED OUT to DEMAND that Facebook and Twitter ban anti-vaxxers from their pages. (snort).
Of course this conspiring bag of wanna-be tyrants went to the Democratic Party for assistance in their ploy to remove basic rights of Americans. California's Senators Feinstein and Boxer couldn't get their political panties off fast enough, once Merck walked into the room dragging bags of upcoming presidential election cash. Empress Hillary beckons. The Democratic Party, in the mid-term elections were not just defeated, but the American electorate threw them from the boat. And, as we can see, that American electorate was right to do so.
Usually, I am an activist, and you can't shut me up. But, for now, I am just, more or less, sitting here watching the rage build in the American community. The proverbial sleeping giant has awakened - and is hungry for Big Pharma/Health Department/CDC blood. I AM VERY PLEASED. Why?
The US Vaccine Program is going to be an issue in the upcoming national presidential election. And, that is just what we want - the end of Big Pharma's stranglehold on the US citizenry.
There is NO Question - Vaccines are Unsafe and Ineffective.
The whole US Vaccine Program is a Scam.
A murderous filth-encrusted Scam designed to damage America as a nation.
I will say this again - "Here, within the US, basically five corporations are attempting to force Unquestionable Mandatory Vaccines on an unsuspecting population - Merck, Sanofi-Pasteur, Glaxo Smith Kline, Novartis, and Pfizer. None of these are US-based corporations. They are all foreign-owned - kept beyond US watchdog scrutiny. You never see their leadership, ever. Certainly not during the light of day.
But, you can see their
minions. They are busy, in
twenty States, trying to create panic over a
hundred and two measles cases, and use that panic to
get the public to create a Mandatory Vaccine
program for all children, and then us. Their Mandatory
Vaccines proposal is not
about protecting against measles. It
is about the drug lords taking control of you, your
body, and your children's bodies..
Now, one in six US children are neurologically damaged. One in sixty-eight children have autism, ADD/ADHD children rage though public places. Brain damage is hidden in obscure reporting systems. Asthma is prevalent everywhere. 54% of all US children are badly sick - all of the time. In a few more years, despite advances in technology, there won't be ANY US children available to serve in our military forces. One MIT scientist, who knows what she is talking about, says that one in two children will be autistic by 2025, if the current trend keeps up.This isn't by accident.
This is a plan of attack on America by foreign interests. And, it's working...
We need, at this point, to not only stop the current Mandatory Vaccine attack, but to completely destroy Big Pharma's ability to do anything like this again. In short. it is time to destroy the pharmaceutical industry entirely - and without question, remove the US Vaccine Program from the American Scene."
Activists - DO NOT STOP with just removing the Mandatory Vaccine Requirements.
The entire vaccine industry needs to go.
While we are at it - let's remove Big Pharma's ability to advertise their products in the US media. The US is one of only two nations that allows Big Pharma advertising... The other is New Zealand. No where else on Planet Earth allows Big Pharma that much influence.
What the hell are we waiting for? How many more Americans need to be damaged, and killed, before we act?
The Rage?
Oh yes. I seem to be on everyone's e-mailing list. I took a few days off for a trip to the mountains, came back, and my Inbox erupted like popcorn. I was absolutely thrilled with the activity.
As my readers remember, I have been VERY critical of Autism Leadership's inability to focus on their problems, come up with a Plan, and activate that Plan. Looking out from my window on the Internet, now, gives me the impression that Attila The Hun and his Mongolian Horde, are riding over the hill, heading towards the State legislatures, the White House, and State Health Departments.
Thank God for the Republican Party.
In virtually every instance, nationwide, it was a Democrat that initiated these "remove rights of Americans" bills. In Oregon, for instance, the controversial SB-422 was introduced by a Democratic Senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, who, very clearly, did no research on any of the issues. But, a Republican Senator, Tim Knopp, did, and he said, about the bill:
Yup. An issue for the
general presidential election. Let's get
going.
Stay tuned.
This Dangerous "Vaccine Construction" Needs to be Disassembled
A few days ago members of the Oregon State Vote No On SB-422 coalition discovered that the Center For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had created and funded a subversive organization for the express purpose of removing rights of Americans.
The CDC has apparently
been funding this anti-American hate group, calling
itself NACCHO, for some time, to the tune of 25
million dollars ($25,000,000) per year. NACCHO
stands for National Association of County and City
Health Officials.
NACCHO's
Mission Statement says: "the
National Association of County and City
Health Officials (NACCHO) urges that
personal belief exemptions be removed from
state immunization laws and regulations."
Of course it is completely illegal for groups funded by government money to lobby legislators - but that fact, apparently, has no importance to a group that ignores vaccine damage to children when all that money is coming their way.
As I said before "the most insidious United States health project out there is what's called the CDC "Vaccines For Children Program." It is the basis for making our local Public Health Agencies the street-corner drug pusher - whose activities are aimed at our children."
Just yesterday it was announced that the Oregon Senator that initiated the "Jam needles in every child" bill, called SB-422, has withdrawn the bill. Smile here.
The war is on....
What caused, you may ask, the sudden shift by the Big Pharma controlled CDC, and their constituent State/County Health Departments, to attempt to create a national MANDATORY vaccine program, for not only children, but adults? Within weeks Democratic Party legislators all across the nation were jumping to do Big Pharma's bidding. Why was that?
Here is what happened - The first Half-Billion impressions on Twitter, and a short time later, a full billion impressions called #CDCWhistleblower. In short - a billion little billboards in social media pointing out that vaccines are total crap, the whole vaccine program is a fraud, and the participants in that vaccine fraud are, literally, the scum of the earth.
You can read the simple explanation of what actually happened, how it came about, and of how that all works, by clicking here.
Five to seven million new little billboards (impressions) are being created, and delivered, EVERY DAY NOW.
Pretty good campaign - and right on target. Everyone saw where the "vaccine construction," a money grubbing group made up of Big Pharma, State/Local Health Departments, and the kiss-up-to-Big-Pharma Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) SCREAMED OUT to DEMAND that Facebook and Twitter ban anti-vaxxers from their pages. (snort).
Of course this conspiring bag of wanna-be tyrants went to the Democratic Party for assistance in their ploy to remove basic rights of Americans. California's Senators Feinstein and Boxer couldn't get their political panties off fast enough, once Merck walked into the room dragging bags of upcoming presidential election cash. Empress Hillary beckons. The Democratic Party, in the mid-term elections were not just defeated, but the American electorate threw them from the boat. And, as we can see, that American electorate was right to do so.
Usually, I am an activist, and you can't shut me up. But, for now, I am just, more or less, sitting here watching the rage build in the American community. The proverbial sleeping giant has awakened - and is hungry for Big Pharma/Health Department/CDC blood. I AM VERY PLEASED. Why?
The US Vaccine Program is going to be an issue in the upcoming national presidential election. And, that is just what we want - the end of Big Pharma's stranglehold on the US citizenry.
There is NO Question - Vaccines are Unsafe and Ineffective.
The whole US Vaccine Program is a Scam.
A murderous filth-encrusted Scam designed to damage America as a nation.
I will say this again - "Here, within the US, basically five corporations are attempting to force Unquestionable Mandatory Vaccines on an unsuspecting population - Merck, Sanofi-Pasteur, Glaxo Smith Kline, Novartis, and Pfizer. None of these are US-based corporations. They are all foreign-owned - kept beyond US watchdog scrutiny. You never see their leadership, ever. Certainly not during the light of day.
Now, one in six US children are neurologically damaged. One in sixty-eight children have autism, ADD/ADHD children rage though public places. Brain damage is hidden in obscure reporting systems. Asthma is prevalent everywhere. 54% of all US children are badly sick - all of the time. In a few more years, despite advances in technology, there won't be ANY US children available to serve in our military forces. One MIT scientist, who knows what she is talking about, says that one in two children will be autistic by 2025, if the current trend keeps up.This isn't by accident.
This is a plan of attack on America by foreign interests. And, it's working...
We need, at this point, to not only stop the current Mandatory Vaccine attack, but to completely destroy Big Pharma's ability to do anything like this again. In short. it is time to destroy the pharmaceutical industry entirely - and without question, remove the US Vaccine Program from the American Scene."
Activists - DO NOT STOP with just removing the Mandatory Vaccine Requirements.
The entire vaccine industry needs to go.
While we are at it - let's remove Big Pharma's ability to advertise their products in the US media. The US is one of only two nations that allows Big Pharma advertising... The other is New Zealand. No where else on Planet Earth allows Big Pharma that much influence.
What the hell are we waiting for? How many more Americans need to be damaged, and killed, before we act?
The Rage?
Oh yes. I seem to be on everyone's e-mailing list. I took a few days off for a trip to the mountains, came back, and my Inbox erupted like popcorn. I was absolutely thrilled with the activity.
As my readers remember, I have been VERY critical of Autism Leadership's inability to focus on their problems, come up with a Plan, and activate that Plan. Looking out from my window on the Internet, now, gives me the impression that Attila The Hun and his Mongolian Horde, are riding over the hill, heading towards the State legislatures, the White House, and State Health Departments.
Thank God for the Republican Party.
In virtually every instance, nationwide, it was a Democrat that initiated these "remove rights of Americans" bills. In Oregon, for instance, the controversial SB-422 was introduced by a Democratic Senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, who, very clearly, did no research on any of the issues. But, a Republican Senator, Tim Knopp, did, and he said, about the bill:
"Sen. Tim Knopp, R-Bend, who
led the opposition at the Legislature
against SB 442, said letting the bill die is
the "right thing to do."
He said while the debate was
focused on Oregon's nonmedical exemption
rate, he wanted to distinguish that figure
from the vaccination rate. He said because
exemptions don't necessarily mean children
included in that statistic are completely
unvaccinated, there doesn't seem to be an
emergency.
"Ultimately, we probably need
to review whether or not Oregon needs a
constitutional amendment to make sure
parents are in control of their kids' health
care," Knopp said.
Stay tuned.
Tim Bolen - Consumer
Advocate
Highly recommend visiting Tim Bolen's website, read some of the material, sign up for his free newsletter. We must take responsibility and do our due diligence for the benefit not only of this country but the entire planet. It is now or never!
Thursday, March 12, 2015
ACTION ALERT: HB181 Law to Regulate Naturopaths
HB
181 is a bill that has passed the Idaho House that would
regulate naturopaths in the state of Idaho. The bill is now in
front of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. The bill
dictates everything a naturopath can and can't do and
importantly requires that a person have attended one of only a
couple of naturopathic colleges. It also creates a new board to
regulate naturopaths.
A doctor I know in Boise who is an MD and a naturopath would
not be able to practice integrative medicine any longer because
she did not go to the right naturopathic college according to
the legislature. One of the problems with these regulatory
boards is that they can and do abuse their powers and this law
would mean that only the 20 or so Idaho naturopaths who trained
at the "right" school can continue practicing while all the
others could not. This abuse of powers is seen in Western
medical boards as well where doctors are threatened with having
their licenses withdrawn if they don't follow every edict of the
regulatory body like vaccines or drugs for kids.
Given that many folks choose a naturopath instead of an MD
and that regulation by the federal government has increased with
the Affordable care act it is not hard to envision a time when
naturopaths are not allowed to practice at all and the only
"medicine" that is approved by the government is Western
medicine.
If you like me, don't want to be restricted in the type of
medicine that you use in your family, it is important to stop
this bill.
Please call or email every member of the Senate Health and
Welfare committee to stop this bill. All I've written above can
be used as talking points.
Chair Lee Heider 332-1347
Vice Chair Fred Martin 332-1407
Patti Anne Lodge 332-1320
Sheryl L. Nuxoll 332-1355
Marv Hagedorn 332-1334
John H. Tippets 332-1429
Abby Lee 332-1325
Vice Chair Fred Martin 332-1407
Patti Anne Lodge 332-1320
Sheryl L. Nuxoll 332-1355
Marv Hagedorn 332-1334
John H. Tippets 332-1429
Abby Lee 332-1325
Dan Schmidt 332-1405
Maryanne Jordan 332-1352
lheider@senate.idaho.gov, fmar
jtippets@senate.idaho.gov, mjo
Following is the message my doctor in Boise sent out to all
her patients:
URGENT! PLEASE HELP!
The Idaho Legislature is considering the passage of HB181.
It has passed the House of Representatives. It is up
for review in the Senate today. This bill would make all
naturopathy the exclusive domain of the 20 or so naturopaths
that went to naturopathic college. I have my naturopathic
credentials from the American Naturopathic Medical Institute
but I did not attend a four year college of naturopathy. If
this passes, this means I would no longer be able to
practice integrative medicine.
More background from someone else:
Bill 181 comes down to licensing naturopaths. Some states license them and some don't. Idaho has not licensed in the past. Instead, they practice under the Smith Act which allows naturopaths to use other means besides prescription drugs (which is the very definition of naturopathy). Bill 181 wants to make it required that all naturopaths in the state of Idaho be licensed and that in order to be licensed they have to do whatever the Health and Welfare committee decides they must do to be licensed. We already know from the Health and Welfare committee (from previous attempts to push this bill through every year since 2007) that their licensing structure is that naturopaths must have attended 1 of 2 approved naturopathic schools in the US. Both of these schools are more homeopathic than naturopathic and are not only expensive but the degree is a 5 year degree. Instead of allowing naturopaths who already have degrees (from other schools) be grandfathered in, they would basically have to close their doors as naturopaths in Idaho and those who could afford to do so may choose to go and get the 5 year degree for naturopathy all over again. That is the main problem with it although there are others.
I should add that they would then be regulated to only practice naturopathy according to the approved methods from those schools. The Health and Welfare Committee would do the regulating and the woman heading it up has already stated her agenda (Kristy Perry is her name).
Leslie Manookian
leslie.manookian@me.com
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.~ Benjamin Franklin
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Orchestrated Legislative Effort for Forced Vaccination
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 the bottom 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 in your state 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-
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-
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/
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
2/21/2015
OPPOSE
Announced, not filed as of 2/14/2015
Eliminates the personal belief exemption in PA
PA
SB 407
2/5/2015
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
2/26/2015
OPPOSE
Introduced on 2/25/2015 and referred to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Eliminates the religious belief exemption
SC
H 3204/ SB 278
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
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
Sincerely,
The NVIC Advocacy Team
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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 the bottom 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 in your state 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-
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-
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/
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
2/21/2015
OPPOSE
Announced, not filed as of 2/14/2015
Eliminates the personal belief exemption in PA
PA
SB 407
2/5/2015
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
2/26/2015
OPPOSE
Introduced on 2/25/2015 and referred to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Eliminates the religious belief exemption
SC
H 3204/ SB 278
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
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
Sincerely,
The NVIC Advocacy Team
National Vaccine Information Center
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