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2023/2024 Bills

Learn about the bills we are supporting and opposing this legislative session and take action.

Bills we Support

An Act Relative to Fair Educational Practices

Committee: Joint Committee on Education

Bill Status: Awaiting a hearing date/time

Current Bill #: S.272

Bill Synopsis: COMING SOON

An Act Relative to the Protection of Medical Exemptions for Immunizations for School Attendance

Committee: Joint Committee on Education

Bill Status: Awaiting a hearing date/time

Current Bill #: H.582

Bill Synopsis: Proposed bill H.582 aims to specify and broaden the criteria a physician can use in consideration of a medical exemption to encompass the total health circumstances of a child.  The bill would protect physicians from any professional negative consequences for writing medical exemptions. Additionally, H.582 would preserve current law for the religious exemption to immunization for school attendance. 

Bills we Oppose

An Act Relative to Routine Childhood Immunizations

Committee: Joint Committee on Education

Bill Status: Awaiting a hearing date/time

Current Bill #: H.604

Bill Synopsis: H.604 bill would remove the religious exemption to vaccination, which would deny in-person schooling to children who desperately need it, including those from communities of color and underprivileged backgrounds, and those with special needs. H.604 will also require all schools to report immunization and medical exemption data to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, to annually publish and make publicly available aggregate immunizations and exemptions data for each school and school district.

An Act Promoting Community Immunity

Committee: Joint Committee on Public Health

Bill Status: Awaiting a hearing date/time

Current Bill #: S.1458

Bill Synopsis: S.1458 and its companion bill H.2151 purports to improve and standardize immunization reporting but goes well beyond this reasonable goal.  It is complicated, wasteful, and blatantly coercive, not only for students but also for schools and physicians. 

S.1458 would allow:

  • Doctors to vaccinate children without parental or minor consent.
  • mature minors to consent to vaccination without parental consent.
  • records of this care to be kept confidential from parents, and doctors are protected from all liability with regard to this care.protected from all liability with regard to this care.
  • private schools do not have to accept exemptions.
  • religious exemption requires you to state that you are putting your child’s life at risk.
  • for Medical exemption denials for anything outside of contraindications.
  • for the exploitation of medically fragile children HIPAA rights who exercise a medical exemption.
  • DPH authority to change medical and religious exemptions without legislative process.

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An Act Promoting Community Immunity

Committee: Joint Committee on Public Health

Bill Status: Awaiting a hearing date/time

Current Bill #: H.2151

Bill Synopsis: H.2151 and its companion bill S.1458  purports to improve and standardize immunization reporting but goes well beyond this reasonable goal.  It is complicated, wasteful, and blatantly coercive, not only for students but also for schools and physicians. 

H.2151 would allow:

  • Doctors to vaccinate children without parental or minor consent.
  • Mature minors to consent to vaccination without parental consent.
  • Records of this care to be kept confidential from parents, and doctors are protected from all liability with regard to this care.
  • Private schools do not have to accept exemptions.
  • Religious exemption requires you to state that you are putting your child’s life at risk.
  • For medical exemption denials for anything outside of contraindications.
  • For the exploitation of medically fragile children HIPAA rights who exercise a medical exemption.
  • DPH authority to change medical and religious exemptions without legislative process.
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An Act Relative to Vaccines and Preventing Future Disease Outbreaks

Committee: Joint Committee on Public Health

Bill Status: Awaiting a hearing date/time

Current Bill #: S.1391

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An Act Requiring Immunizations Against Preventable Diseases

Committee: Joint Committee on Education

Bill Status: Awaiting a hearing date/time

Current Bill #: H.471

Bill Synopsis: This bill proposes to mandate both the hepatitis A (Hep A) and human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines to the required schedule for school attendance.

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