Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Minnesota House Bill HF2128 Compare Versions

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1	1	1.1 A bill for an act
2	2	1.2 relating to vital records; requiring that immunization data be included on death
3	3	1.3 records; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144.
4	4	1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
5	5	1.5 Section 1. [144.2212] DEATH CERTIFICATE; IMMUNIZATION RECORD.
6	6	1.6 Subdivision 1.Documentation.(a) The commissioner of health shall include on each
7	7	1.7death certificate the dates and types of immunization administered within the two years
8	8	1.8preceding the person's death. The death certificate immunization record must document
9	9	1.9vaccination event data elements that must include:
10	10	1.10 (1) vaccination administration date;
11	11	1.11 (2) vaccine dose volume;
12	12	1.12 (3) vaccine dose volume units;
13	13	1.13 (4) vaccine expiration date;
14	14	1.14 (5) vaccine lot number;
15	15	1.15 (6) vaccine product name;
16	16	1.16 (7) vaccine route of administration; and
17	17	1.17 (8) vaccine site of administration.
18	18	1.18The state registrar shall enter on the decedent's state death record at the time the death
19	19	1.19certificate is certified all vaccination event data elements in paragraph (b) through and
20	20	1.20including two years prior to the date of death.
21	21	1Section 1.
22	22	REVISOR SGS/LJ 25-0398503/04/25
23	23	State of Minnesota
24	24	This Document can be made available
25	25	in alternative formats upon request
26	26	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
27	27	H. F. No. 2128
28	28	NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
29	29	Authored by Mekeland and Murphy03/10/2025
30	30	The bill was read for the first time and referred to the Committee on Health Finance and Policy 2.1 (b) For children under eighteen years of age, the entire immunization record text must
31	31	2.2be placed into a text field attached to the decedent's death certificate.
32	32	2.3 Subd. 2.Immunization death reports.(a) Within ten days of the beginning of the state
33	33	2.4fiscal year, the commissioner of health shall produce a report, available to the public, on
34	34	2.5the total deaths that occurred within 24 hours, three days, one week, three weeks, ten weeks,
35	35	2.625 weeks, and one year of immunization, including subtotals of type of vaccine, gender,
36	36	2.7age group, race, ethnicity, and comorbidity type, if available.
37	37	2.8 (b) Within 30 days after the end of the state fiscal year, the commissioner of health shall
38	38	2.9produce a report and make the report available to the public. The report shall include the
39	39	2.10prior five years of the same data specified in paragraph (a).
40	40	2.11 Subd. 3.Cause of death and injury study.The commissioner of health shall conduct
41	41	2.12a biennial cause of death and injury study and issue a public report within two weeks of the
42	42	2.13date that is one year before each general presidential election and each general midterm or
43	43	2.14gubernatorial election. The report shall include:
44	44	2.15 (1) deaths involving cause of or contributing condition to death;
45	45	2.16 (2) injuries involving anything that appears in a physician's notes for the patient; and
46	46	2.17 (3) demographic data that includes race, age, gender, occupation, and other data as
47	47	2.18appropriate and that is not a violation of privacy.
48	48	2.19 Subd. 4.Independent audit of reports.(a) The commissioner of health shall select
49	49	2.20four public health audit proposals biennially from a person or organization not affiliated or
50	50	2.21dependent upon any governmental entity, pharmaceutical industry ecosystem entity, or
51	51	2.22public official. The selected auditor or auditors shall be required to sign a nondisclosure
52	52	2.23agreement to protect the privacy of individuals that the data represents, conduct themselves
53	53	2.24in accordance with state and federal privacy laws, and share the auditors' findings with the
54	54	2.25commissioner at least two days prior to any public disclosure of the findings, unless injury
55	55	2.26or death might occur within those two days.
56	56	2.27 (b) Prior to the engagement of the auditors, the commissioner shall determine and agree
57	57	2.28upon the format of the data files to be shared with the auditors.
58	58	2.29 (c) The auditors' proposal must meet minimum standards of competence in data
59	59	2.30management, aggregation, depiction, and presentation as a result of the work to be done.
60	60	2.31 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment and
61	61	2.32applies to deaths occurring on or after January 1, 2026.
62	62	2Section 1.
63	63	REVISOR SGS/LJ 25-0398503/04/25