Rhode Island Senate Committee on Health and Human Services is holding a very important hearing THIS THURSDAY MAY 24 at RI State House 4:30 PM in Senate Lounge******** They have brought this back to the agenda to vote to pass/fail to the senate floor. Being on the agenda again means it has a good chance of passing committee unless we make noise NOW before Thurs meeting.
BAD DATABASE BILL S2530
This database is auto enroll and you can not opt out. RI Dept of Health is marketing it as a vaccination database, so media outlets etc are not touching on the topic. It is NOT for vaccines only. The terminology of the bill allows for anything the Director of the RI Dept of Health sees fit to be tracked in the this database for every single RI resident. Currently the database already exists for every minor child in RI and tracks things well beyond vaccination status.
CALL SENATOR MILLER AND TELL HIM YOU DO NOT WANT THIS BILL TO PASS THE HHS COMMITTEE
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Rhode Island Senate Committee on Health and Human Services is holding a very important hearing THIS TUESDAY MAY 1 at RI State House 4:30 PM in Senate Lounge*********************************************************************
#NOHPVmandateRI SUPPORTS GOOD BILLS:
S2405 Will allow adults, parents, guardians, or persons in custody of a child to opt out of vaccines for non-casual contact diseases (Including HPV VACCINE) transmitted by sexual contact between individuals and would require all correspondence to parents relating to vaccinations to contain notification about the option to opt out.
S2744 Will re-establish the philosophical exemption, and will keep our religious and medical exemption as well.
Senate Resolution S2670– : will repeal the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (which currently protects vaccine makers/ Dr’s from any vaccine injury liability) and calls for the Subpoena of Dr. William Thompson
Other bills being heard on Tuesday include BAD BILLS:
S2530: This is the RIDOH adult medical/immunization data tracking bill- This would automatically include ALL adults in the KIDSNET immunization and medical data tracking program. See Aimee’s interview on GOLOCAL why this is a bad bill:
**********Please come and support parental rights!!!!!!! Parking across the street in Department of Transportation lot is free after 3 PM. There is On-street metered parking (bring quarters). Hearing starts at “rise of the Senate” at around 4:30. Please provide written testimony for the Committee and give it to the clerk -15 copies(who will be seated at the table inside the Senate Lounge) If you wish to speak, you may sign up at the podium in the Senate Lounge.
**********Please remember to call and email your local district Senator and CC Senate President Ruggerio – let them know you SUPPORT these bills!! Thank You for supporting reversal of the HPV vaccine mandate, parental rights, and INFORMED CONSENT
Exciting News in RI in February. Legislation has been introduced in both the house and the senate in support of the mission to advocate for informed consent.
Senators Metts, Morgan, Paolino, Cote, and Archambault
This bill will allow for opt out by note vs exemption for the HPV vaccine by the wording of “non-casual contact disease transmitted by sexual contact”. Any parent or guardian can furnish the decision to the institution in writing. All consent forms and correspondence sent to parents and guardians about vaccinations shall affirmatively notify them of the option to opt out of participation in the vaccination program.
This bill is great for informed consent and we support that it is a move in the right direction. However, this bill does not remove HPV or any other non-casual contact disease future vaccine from not being included in the student vaccination list needed for school. It creates a philosophical exemption for that type of vaccine. We need you to help us send a message requesting that there be an amendment to the bill that changes wording to not having non-casual contact diseases on the list of vaccinations for school inclusion at all.
Representatives Roberts, Quattrocchi, Lancia, Price, and Chippendale
This bill is an exact duplicate of the senate bill discussed above.
H7686
Introduced By:
Representatives O`Grady, McKiernan, Price, Roberts, and Filippi
This bill will add the philosophical exemption option for the vaccination program back in for Rhode Island. You can state it is against your feelings of what is best for your family, and not choose to state it is against your religious beliefs.
At this time the bills have not been scheduled for a hearing yet.
TWO call to action Items-
1- Call the Governor and leave a msg if needed. Stating that you “are tired of waiting for her to take action. That the HPV vaccine was added to the school schedule by administrative order and should be removed by her administrative office immediately.”
401-222-2080
2–Send a prewritten email to the members of the house and senate committee in support of the legislation above. Don’t forget to sign the email with your name and address. You will need to send two emails. One to the house committee and one to the senate committee. CLICK HERE
Thank you for your support in this. It takes us all to make this impact together and you are an integral part of that process. Share this message with friends and family to be sure we overload the legislators with contact from the public.
Media Contact
Aimee Gardiner, Director
(401)406-2647
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2017
Broken Promises; Coventry School District Throws Out Students For Not Complying With The HPV Vaccine Mandate
Providence, RI- Today, Coventry Middle School sent home teen students that were not in compliance with the mandate of the HPV vaccine. The RI Dept of Health had stated on record that no students will lose class time over the HPV vaccine mandate. Rhode Islanders Against Mandated HPV Vaccinations argued that having a mandate with no intention to enforce it was reason to remove the mandate in itself. Now students are losing class time over a vaccine mandate for a virus not spread by casual contact.
“I was very angry to hear about the situation today. My daughter had recently graduated from a weekly truancy program in regards to her attendance, and I couldn’t believe they would do something for her to lose more school time. She is nervous after working so hard to be on track that this will negatively effect her attendance records again. I don’t understand how kids can get kicked out for something like that. I think it is stupid,” said Ms. Testa about the girls getting dismissed today.
According to Ms. Testa’s daugher, the girls were removed from first period class and held in the office until someone came to pick them up, not allowed to go to the bathroom either. Two other girls stated they did receive the vaccine, but the school stated they didn’t have the paperwork, and all three girls were sent home.
“When I first got the phone call of this situation, my first thought was how ironic that the first school to have a school committee to remit a resolution in support of removing the HPV vaccine from the required list of vaccines for school, was the same district to send students home due to non-compliance. Here is a prime example of why this mandate is completely unreasonable. Currently, there are two bills introduced in the house and two bills in the senate, that support parental rights and to remove the HPV vaccine mandate. Rhode Islanders against mandated HPV vaccinations calls upon the RI legislators to rise up, and pass the bills that remove this mandate and put the power of medical private choice back in the parents hands,” said Aimee Gardiner, Director of Rhode Islanders against mandated HPV vaccinations.
Senator Raptakis has reaffirmed for the second year in a row that the HPV vaccine mandate should be removed from the schedule of vaccines. His bill S0047 is one of two that will be heard by the Senate Heath & Human Services committee, the hearing has not yet been scheduled. Coventry is in Senator Raptakis’ district #33.
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Citizens must speak out to the committee members of the Statehouse, and tell them to pass the bills that reverse the mandate of the HPV vaccine.
