UPDATE: 12/3/2020

IMPORTANT UPDATE ON DC PREDATORY MINOR CONSENT TO VACCINATION BILL B23-0171

Call for Unified Nationwide Action Asking DC Mayor to Veto B23-0171

Dear NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

PLEASE continue to contact the Mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, to tell her to VETO B23-0171. WE HAVE MORE TIME!  Spread this far and wide!

The DC City Council passed the dangerous and predatory bill B23-0171 by a final vote of 10:3 on Tuesday 11/17/2020. This law will not only permit children 11 years old and older to consent to vaccines on their own without parental knowledge or consent, the bill requires insurance companies, vaccine providers and schools to conceal the fact that the child has been vaccinated from the parent! It also sets up these young children to be targets of bullying and coercion to be vaccinated behind their parents backs!  We strongly oppose this bill.

The Mayor of DC has up to 10 days to respond.  There are three possible actions the Mayor can take: 1) Veto (our preferred action), which would stop the bill from becoming law as long as 2/3 the council doesn’t vote to override the veto, (2) Sign, which would move the bill forward to Congress for review, or 3) No signature, which has the same effect as her signing it. 

Normally the bill would be sent to the Mayor after the bill is passed, and therefore the clock for 10 calendar days for the Mayor to respond would already be expired.

NVIC’s Director of Advocacy spoke directly with the legislative director of the DC Council this morning, and he told her that the DC Council has not sent the Mayor the bill yet for response, so the 10 day period has not even started. This is good news as we have more time to have more people contact the Mayor requesting a veto.

This delay is not typical, and no definitive reason was given for it although stressors from the current COVID-19 situation was cited as likely contributing. He also explained that once the DC Council sends the Mayor the bill, the legislative website will be automatically updated to reflect that. There will be an entry in the legislative history column indicating the bill is under review by the Mayor and the date it was sent will be included. The 10-calendar day countdown (excluding weekends and holidays) will start from there.  You can monitor this at https://lims.dccouncil.us/Legislation/B23-0171.

You may be wondering why you are receiving this update even if you don’t live in DC. Over the past 2 years, http://NVICAdvocacy.org has tracked and issued opposing positions on 33 various minor consent to vaccination bills filed across many states, and this is the only one that has passed.  Your opposition to the other bills filed in other states helped stop the rest. This bill is different and far worse from the others in that this is the only bill that compels authority figures in the child’s life to deliberately conceal the fact the child was vaccinated from the child’s parent! Also this bill covers ALL ACIP recommended vaccines. DC is our nation’s capital, and if this is allowed to be implemented there, we can expect bills like this to threaten our children and families in all 50 states.  All of us in every state and DC need to work together to stop this.

We ALL need to all seize this opportunity of extra time to continue to let the Mayor know that America is watching and undermining the parent child relationship and removing parental rights is not an acceptable action by government!

ACTION:

Contact DC Mayor Muriel Bowser IMMEDIATELY to VETO B23-0171 Vaccinating Children Behind Parents’ Backs

Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
Phone: (202) 727-2643
Facebook: @MayorMurielBowser
Twitter: @MurielBowser & @MayorBowser
Instagram: @mayor_bowser

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

NVIC Advocacy Action Alert with Talking Points: https://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Resources/NewsletterArchives/OPPOSEDCB230171MinorConsentforVaccinations.aspx

The Vaccine Reaction: DC Bill B23-0171 Allowing Children 11 Years and Older to Be Vaccinated Without Parental Knowledge or Consent Advances

Epoch Times: New DC Law Would Give Vaccine Decisions to 11-year-Olds, Cut Parents Out

The Highwire: Injecting Kids Without Consent

Sincerely,

NVIC Advocacy Team
National Vaccine Information Center
http://NVIC.org and http://NVICAdvocacy.org
https://nvicadvocacy.org/members/Members/ContactUs.aspx

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UPDATE: 11/17/2020

We need your quick one minute action to reach out to the Mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, to tell her to VETO B23-0171.

The DC City Council passed the dangerous and predatory bill B23-0171 by a vote of 10:3 on Tuesday 11/17/2020. This law will not only permit children 11 years old and older to consent to vaccines on their own without parental knowledge or consent, the bill requires insurance companies, vaccine providers and schools to conceal the fact that the child has been vaccinated from the parent! It also sets up these young children to be targets of bullying and coercion to be vaccinated behind their parents backs! 

There are multiple federal and local laws that will be broken by this new DC law (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act on 1986, Religious Exemption to Vaccination). The law is also in conflict with Supreme Court precedent affirming parental rights, and it puts children’s health and safety at risk not only for serious reactions and even possible death, but it exposes children to be victims of under documented overvaccination. 

Mayor Bowser has up to 10 calendar days (excluding holidays and weekends) to respond.  The final day she can decide is December 2, 2020.   We need her to VETO this new law.  Please help her get the message loud and clear that America is watching and this is not an acceptable action by government!

Contact DC Mayor Muriel Bowser IMMEDIATELY to VETO B23-0171 - Vaccinating Children Behind Parents’ Backs. 

If we don’t stop it, it will come to your state!
Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
Facebook: @MayorMurielBowser
Twitter: @MurielBowser & @MayorBowser
Instagram: @mayor_bowser
Phone: 202-727-2643

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Dear District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland NVIC Advocacy Team Members,

Your action is needed to stop a predatorial bill in DC that would not only permit children 11 years old and older to consent to vaccines on their own without parental knowledge or consent, the bill requires insurance companies, vaccine providers and schools to conceal the fact that the child has been vaccinated from the parent! 

B23-0171 was passed 12:1 at the October 20^th first reading, and it was announced that it would have have a second reading and final vote by the DC Council at their legislative meeting scheduled on November 10^th. Council Member Trayon White Sr. was the only Council Member to vote against the bill because it violates parental rights. The discussion of the bill starts at 5:36 in the archived video. 

However, at the November 10th meeting, the bill was postponed for the final reading and vote until Tuesday November 17^th.  You can watch the discussion on the archived video beginning at the 39:50 time stamp - http://dc.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=5876 

Council Member Gray, who is the chair of the Health Committee, had proposed an amendment to require the vaccine provider to notify the insurer that the immunization has been provided under the authority of the “Minor Consent for Vaccinations Amendment Act of 2020”, so the insurer will know that they should not send an Explanation of Benefits (EOB) for the vaccination. This amendment underscores the intention of deception to keep parents in the dark about their children receiving liability free vaccines without their knowledge or consent. Fortunately, because Council Member Gray was not able to attend the meeting and answer questions about his amendment, the vote on the bill was postponed. We have this week to make sure the DC Council knows that this bill is not acceptable to families.

NVIC first alerted our members to this bill when it was scheduled for a hearing originally in June of 2019. After no activity for over a year, the bill was just passed by a voice vote in a virtual meeting of the Health Committee on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 after it was amended to make it even worse.  In the archived video, the amendments are discussed at the 8:44 mark and the sponsor’s comments begin at 9:48 time mark.  

The chair of the Health Committee who passed the bill, Vincent C. Gray (D-Ward 7), was quoted in the Washington Post saying “the hope of an imminent corona­virus vaccine gave the bill new urgency.”

If the bill passes second reading, it goes to the Mayor who has up to 10 days sign the bill, let it go into effect without a signature, or veto it.  If the mayor vetoes the bill, the Council can override the veto by a two-thirds vote.

The final step before becoming law is the bill must be sent to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate for a period of 30 days before becoming effective as law. During this period of Congressional review, the Congress may enact into law a joint resolution disapproving the Council’s Act.  If, during the review period, the President of the United States approves the joint resolution, the Council’s Act is prevented from becoming law.  If, however, upon the expiration of the congressional review period, no joint resolution disapproving the Council’s Act has been approved by the President, the bill finally becomes a Law and is assigned a law number.

ACTION NEEDED:

1) Contact Members of DC Council Committee of the Whole and ask them to VOTE NO on B23-0171 at the second reading on November 17th.  See reasons to oppose and committee contact information below.  

Only those who live, work, or send their kids to school in the District of Columbia should be contacting Council Members to oppose this bill, but we need everyone no matter where you live to:

1. Share this with all your DC contacts, and
2. Be ready to contact your U.S. Congressional Representative and two U.S. Senators to support a resolution to prevent this bill from becoming law.