Honey/ 2 Senator OConnor Coates

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A BILL
To cut federal funding by 10% every year that a state does not meet the requirement for all
children ages zero to eighteen to be vaccinated against disease including but not limited to
measles, meningococcal, and polio.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This act may be cited as the Mandatory Vaccination Act of 2015.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
A) The law mandates that public schools and daycares across the United States require children
to be vaccinated.
B) There is no link between children getting vaccines and developing autism.
C) Currently, there is a Vaccines For Children (VFC) program in place.
D) The vaccine-preventable diseases that are uncommon to contract today are not extinct,
merely subdued.
E) Vaccine-preventable diseases are expensive to take care of if contracted.
F) People cannot contract disease from the vaccines they are given.
G) Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective medical treatments in the world.
H) The 20-year US immunization program spares millions of children from contracting
preventable diseases.
I) Approximately 42,000 adults and 300 children in the United States die each year from
vaccine-preventable diseases.
J) The avoidance of vaccines and vaccinating children puts everyone in the nation at risk.
K) Most childhood vaccines are 90% to 99% effective in preventing disease.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) The Mandatory Vaccination Act of 2015 shall mandate that all states must vaccinate children
between the ages of zero and seventeen against infectious and dangerous diseases including but
not limited to measles, meningococcal, and polio. Vaccines shall be administered by
pediatricians during check-ups or at public preschools and daycares up through public high
schools. Those children who cannot be administered certain vaccines, due to medical reasons
only, will be given an exemption. They must have been approved for exemption by at least three
doctors.
B)The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be responsible for ensuring
that every child shall be vaccinated under this bill. Funding for this bill will be provided by
through the taxes that citizens of the United States currently pay, as a part of the HHS agency.
C) Those states that do not comply with this law will have ten percent of their annual federal
funds cut from their public health departments. This bill shall be enacted on January 1, 2016.
There is no expiration date for this bill.