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NVIC Now Monitoring 173 Vaccine Bills in 40 States

By NVIC Advocacy Staff
Published April 19, 2017 in Government


39 New Vaccine Bills and 5 More States Recently Added

We are three months into the 2017 state legislative sessions and our NVIC Advocacy Team has already tracked 173 vaccine related bills across 40 states and two federal bills on the NVIC Advocacy Portal. We have added 39 new bills since our last update at the end of February. Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana and Michigan are five new states that have bills introduced for the first time this session!

If you live in one of the following states, there have been bills filed that can affect your rights: AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, and WV (states in bold have bills that are still active and need your action and states not bolded have bills that have already passed or died.)

The following states are priority OPPOSITION alert states as they now have active bills to restrict or eliminate vaccine exemptionsCT, MN, NY, PA, RI, and TX.

The following states are priority SUPPORT alert states as they now have active bills to add or expand vaccine exemptions: CO, MI, NJ, NY, OK, OR, RI, TN, TX, and WA.

Please log in to NVICAdvocacy.org and click on your state team tab to see what is happening in your state and what you can do to help.  If there is no immediate emergency action alert information posted, scroll down and look at the “bill information” section for all bills in your state, our position, updated status, current requested action, and links to more information.

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