IDAHO SECRETARY OF STATE Ben Ysursa, Secretary of State |
Contact Person / Organization | Alanna Grimm |
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Status | Deadline has passed. Proposed initiative will not be on the November 2010 ballot. | |
Short Ballot Title | An Initiative to require consent for vaccination and prohibit threats or coercion to receive vaccination. |
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Long Ballot Title | An initiative related to vaccines; amending Title 39, Chapter 38, Idaho Code that this section shall not apply to vaccines; by amending Chapter 48 by adding a new section to establish that no competent person shall be vaccinated without his or her consent; individuals who are not competent shall have written permission by a person having authority; no competent person can be threatened or coerced in any way to accept a vaccination. |
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Attorney General Certificate of Review | Can be viewed by following this link to the Attorney General's web site. This document is provided in PDF file format, you must have a PDF reader installed on your computer to view the file. | |
Full Text |
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This act may be known and cited as the "Idaho Vaccination Choice Protection Act." SECTION 2. PURPOSE. (1) In the proper application of evidence-based medicine, prophylactic treatments given to a healthy person should be evaluated for both safety and efficacy in rigorous multi-center double-blinded placebo-controlled trials with long-term follow up measuring clinically relevant endpoints. While this is the standard for most prophylactic pharmaceuticals, most vaccines are allowed to gain registration using surrogate endpoints such as humoral immunity measured by antibody titers instead of true efficacy, and the double-blind follow up period is woefully inadequate to insure long-term safety and identify systemic risks of treatment. At the same time the United States government has put in place measures that would give vaccine manufacturers immunity from prosecution in certain circumstances despite studies which do not prove long-term safety or efficacy. SECTION 3. That Section 39-3801, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 39-3801. INFECTIOUS , CONTAGIOUS, OR COMMUNICABLE DISEASE -- MEDICAL TREATMENT OF MINOR 14 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER -- CONSENT OF PARENTS OR GUARDIAN UNNECESSARY. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a minor fourteen (14) years of age or older who may have come into contact with any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease may give consent to the furnishing of hospital, medical and surgical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of such disease, if the disease or condition is one which is required by law, or regulation adopted pursuant to law, to be reported to the local health officer. Such consent shall not be subject to disaffirmance because of minority. The consent of the parent, parents, or legal guardian of such minor shall not be necessary to authorize hospital, medical and surgical care related to such disease and such parent, parents, or legal guardian shall not be liable for payment for any care rendered pursuant to this section. This section shall not apply to any treatment defined as a vaccine in subsection (1) of 39-4805, Idaho Code. SECTION 4. That Chapter 48, Title 39, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and designated as Section 39-4805, Idaho Code, and to read as follows: 39-4805. VACCINATION CHOICE. (1) For the purposes of this section: SECTION 5. SEVERABILITY. If a part of this act is invalid, all valid parts that are severable from the invalid part remain in effect. If a part of this act is invalid in one or more of its applications, the part remains in effect in all valid applications that are severable from the invalid applications. |
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