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.
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.
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.
