Bill Details
HR.87 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-03 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-01-03
Policy Area
Health
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Sponsors
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This bill would stop any COVID-19 vaccine from being added to the child and teen vaccine schedule unless the Department of Health and Human Services first posts all clinical data it has about that vaccine’s safety and effectiveness on the CDC’s public website. The bill says the information must be shared in a way that protects private medical details. It would also automatically remove any COVID-19 vaccine already on that schedule when the bill becomes law, though it could be added again later if the bill’s conditions are met.
- The data posted would have to include information about safety, how well the vaccine works, and any side effects or adverse effects.
- The public posting requirement would apply to HHS, the CDC, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices before any COVID-19 vaccine can be placed on the child and adolescent immunization schedule.
- Any COVID-19 vaccine already on that schedule at the time of enactment would be treated as removed right away, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services would have to carry out that removal.
- The bill allows a vaccine to be added back later, but only if the data-posting rule and other legal requirements are followed.
Official Summaries
Protecting Our Children from the CDC Act
This bill prohibits the inclusion of any COVID-19 vaccine on the child and adolescent immunization schedule (which lists the vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for those populations) unless all clinical data related to the safety and efficacy of the vaccine is published on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 87 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
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.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Biggs of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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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 Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Our Children from the CDC
Act''.
SEC. 2. POSTING OF ALL CLINICAL DATA FOR COVID-19 VACCINES BEFORE
PLACEMENT ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SCHEDULE.
Part C of subtitle 2 of title XXI of the Public Health Service Act
(42 U.S.C. 300aa-25 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``SEC. 2129. POSTING OF ALL CLINICAL DATA FOR COVID-19 VACCINES BEFORE
PLACEMENT ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SCHEDULE.
``(a) No Inclusion of COVID Vaccines.--The Secretary, and any
official, agency, or office of the Department of Health and Human
Services (including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices), shall not include
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 (including
the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices) relating to the
safety and efficacy (including any adverse effects) of such vaccine.
All such data posted under this subsection shall be deidentified to
protect all individually identifiable health information, and
information with respect to the agency and sponsor personnel of the
data involved.
``(b) Vaccines Already on Schedule as of Enactment.--
``(1) Removal.--Any vaccine for COVID-19 that is included
on the child and adolescent immunization schedule as of the
date of enactment of this section is hereby deemed to be
removed from such schedule.
``(2) Administrative action.--The Secretary shall take such
actions as may be necessary to effectuate the removal of a
vaccine from the child and adolescent immunization schedule by
operation of paragraph (1).
``(3) Rule of construction.--The removal of a vaccine from
the child and adolescent immunization schedule by operation of
paragraph (1) shall not be construed to affect the authority of
the Secretary (or other officials, agencies, or offices) to
place such vaccine back on such schedule so long as such
placement is in accordance with subsection (a) and other
applicable provisions of law.
``(c) Definition.--In this section, the term `child and adolescent
immunization schedule' means the child and adolescent immunization
schedule of the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices (or any
successor schedule).''.
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