I 119THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION H. R. 87 To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from placing any vaccine for COVID–19 on the child and adolescent immunization schedule unless the Secretary has posted on the public website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all clinical data in the possession of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to the safety and efficacy of such vaccine, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY3, 2025 Mr. B IGGSof Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from placing any vaccine for COVID–19 on the child and adolescent immunization schedule unless the Secretary has posted on the public website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all clinical data in the possession of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to the safety and efficacy of such vaccine, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:20 Jan 28, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H87.IH H87 kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 2 •HR 87 IH SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Our Chil-2 dren from the CDC Act’’. 3 SEC. 2. POSTING OF ALL CLINICAL DATA FOR COVID–19 4 VACCINES BEFORE PLACEMENT ON CHILD 5 AND ADOLESCENT SCHEDULE. 6 Part C of subtitle 2 of title XXI of the Public Health 7 Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300aa–25 et seq.) is amended by 8 adding at the end the following: 9 ‘‘SEC. 2129. POSTING OF ALL CLINICAL DATA FOR COVID–19 10 VACCINES BEFORE PLACEMENT ON CHILD 11 AND ADOLESCENT SCHEDULE. 12 ‘‘(a) N OINCLUSION OF COVID VACCINES.—The 13 Secretary, and any official, agency, or office of the Depart-14 ment of Health and Human Services (including the Cen-15 ters for Disease Control and Prevention and the Advisory 16 Committee of Immunization Practices), shall not include 17 any vaccine for COVID–19 on the child and adolescent 18 immunization schedule unless the Secretary has posted on 19 the public website of the Centers for Disease Control and 20 Prevention all clinical data in the possession of the De-21 partment of Health and Human Services (including the 22 Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices) relating 23 to the safety and efficacy (including any adverse effects) 24 of such vaccine. All such data posted under this subsection 25 shall be deidentified to protect all individually identifiable 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:20 Jan 28, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H87.IH H87 kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 3 •HR 87 IH health information, and information with respect to the 1 agency and sponsor personnel of the data involved. 2 ‘‘(b) V ACCINESALREADY ONSCHEDULE AS OF EN-3 ACTMENT.— 4 ‘‘(1) R EMOVAL.—Any vaccine for COVID–19 5 that is included on the child and adolescent immuni-6 zation schedule as of the date of enactment of this 7 section is hereby deemed to be removed from such 8 schedule. 9 ‘‘(2) A DMINISTRATIVE ACTION.—The Secretary 10 shall take such actions as may be necessary to effec-11 tuate the removal of a vaccine from the child and 12 adolescent immunization schedule by operation of 13 paragraph (1). 14 ‘‘(3) R ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—The removal 15 of a vaccine from the child and adolescent immuni-16 zation schedule by operation of paragraph (1) shall 17 not be construed to affect the authority of the Sec-18 retary (or other officials, agencies, or offices) to 19 place such vaccine back on such schedule so long as 20 such placement is in accordance with subsection (a) 21 and other applicable provisions of law. 22 ‘‘(c) D EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘child 23 and adolescent immunization schedule’ means the child 24 and adolescent immunization schedule of the Advisory 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:20 Jan 28, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H87.IH H87 kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB 4 •HR 87 IH Committee of Immunization Practices (or any successor 1 schedule).’’. 2 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:20 Jan 28, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H87.IH H87 kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB