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4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 87 |
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5 | 5 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health |
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6 | 6 | | and Human Services from placing any vaccine for COVID–19 on the |
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7 | 7 | | child and adolescent immunization schedule unless the Secretary has |
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8 | 8 | | posted on the public website of the Centers for Disease Control and |
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9 | 9 | | Prevention all clinical data in the possession of the Department of |
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10 | 10 | | Health and Human Services relating to the safety and efficacy of such |
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11 | 11 | | vaccine, and for other purposes. |
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12 | 12 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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13 | 13 | | JANUARY3, 2025 |
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14 | 14 | | Mr. B |
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15 | 15 | | IGGSof Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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16 | 16 | | Committee on Energy and Commerce |
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17 | 17 | | A BILL |
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18 | 18 | | To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit the |
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19 | 19 | | Secretary of Health and Human Services from placing |
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20 | 20 | | any vaccine for COVID–19 on the child and adolescent |
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21 | 21 | | immunization schedule unless the Secretary has posted |
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22 | 22 | | on the public website of the Centers for Disease Control |
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23 | 23 | | and Prevention all clinical data in the possession of the |
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24 | 24 | | Department of Health and Human Services relating to |
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25 | 25 | | the safety and efficacy of such vaccine, and for other |
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26 | 26 | | purposes. |
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27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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28 | 28 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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31 | 31 | | •HR 87 IH |
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32 | 32 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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33 | 33 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Our Chil-2 |
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34 | 34 | | dren from the CDC Act’’. 3 |
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35 | 35 | | SEC. 2. POSTING OF ALL CLINICAL DATA FOR COVID–19 4 |
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36 | 36 | | VACCINES BEFORE PLACEMENT ON CHILD 5 |
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37 | 37 | | AND ADOLESCENT SCHEDULE. 6 |
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38 | 38 | | Part C of subtitle 2 of title XXI of the Public Health 7 |
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39 | 39 | | Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300aa–25 et seq.) is amended by 8 |
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40 | 40 | | adding at the end the following: 9 |
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41 | 41 | | ‘‘SEC. 2129. POSTING OF ALL CLINICAL DATA FOR COVID–19 10 |
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42 | 42 | | VACCINES BEFORE PLACEMENT ON CHILD 11 |
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43 | 43 | | AND ADOLESCENT SCHEDULE. 12 |
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44 | 44 | | ‘‘(a) N |
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45 | 45 | | OINCLUSION OF COVID VACCINES.—The 13 |
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46 | 46 | | Secretary, and any official, agency, or office of the Depart-14 |
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47 | 47 | | ment of Health and Human Services (including the Cen-15 |
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48 | 48 | | ters for Disease Control and Prevention and the Advisory 16 |
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49 | 49 | | Committee of Immunization Practices), shall not include 17 |
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50 | 50 | | any vaccine for COVID–19 on the child and adolescent 18 |
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51 | 51 | | immunization schedule unless the Secretary has posted on 19 |
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52 | 52 | | the public website of the Centers for Disease Control and 20 |
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53 | 53 | | Prevention all clinical data in the possession of the De-21 |
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54 | 54 | | partment of Health and Human Services (including the 22 |
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55 | 55 | | Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices) relating 23 |
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56 | 56 | | to the safety and efficacy (including any adverse effects) 24 |
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57 | 57 | | of such vaccine. All such data posted under this subsection 25 |
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58 | 58 | | shall be deidentified to protect all individually identifiable 26 |
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61 | 61 | | •HR 87 IH |
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62 | 62 | | health information, and information with respect to the 1 |
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63 | 63 | | agency and sponsor personnel of the data involved. 2 |
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64 | 64 | | ‘‘(b) V |
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65 | 65 | | ACCINESALREADY ONSCHEDULE AS OF EN-3 |
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66 | 66 | | ACTMENT.— 4 |
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67 | 67 | | ‘‘(1) R |
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68 | 68 | | EMOVAL.—Any vaccine for COVID–19 5 |
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69 | 69 | | that is included on the child and adolescent immuni-6 |
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70 | 70 | | zation schedule as of the date of enactment of this 7 |
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71 | 71 | | section is hereby deemed to be removed from such 8 |
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72 | 72 | | schedule. 9 |
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73 | 73 | | ‘‘(2) A |
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74 | 74 | | DMINISTRATIVE ACTION.—The Secretary 10 |
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75 | 75 | | shall take such actions as may be necessary to effec-11 |
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76 | 76 | | tuate the removal of a vaccine from the child and 12 |
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77 | 77 | | adolescent immunization schedule by operation of 13 |
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78 | 78 | | paragraph (1). 14 |
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79 | 79 | | ‘‘(3) R |
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80 | 80 | | ULE OF CONSTRUCTION .—The removal 15 |
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81 | 81 | | of a vaccine from the child and adolescent immuni-16 |
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82 | 82 | | zation schedule by operation of paragraph (1) shall 17 |
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83 | 83 | | not be construed to affect the authority of the Sec-18 |
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84 | 84 | | retary (or other officials, agencies, or offices) to 19 |
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85 | 85 | | place such vaccine back on such schedule so long as 20 |
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86 | 86 | | such placement is in accordance with subsection (a) 21 |
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87 | 87 | | and other applicable provisions of law. 22 |
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88 | 88 | | ‘‘(c) D |
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89 | 89 | | EFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘child 23 |
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90 | 90 | | and adolescent immunization schedule’ means the child 24 |
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91 | 91 | | and adolescent immunization schedule of the Advisory 25 |
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94 | 94 | | •HR 87 IH |
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95 | 95 | | Committee of Immunization Practices (or any successor 1 |
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96 | 96 | | schedule).’’. 2 |
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