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UPDATE: 1/23/2024 - ENACTED; B25-0278 was assigned Law Number L25-0108 and became effective on 1/23/2024.
UPDATE: 12/4/2023 - B25-0278 was transmitted to Congress for congressional review, the projected law date is 1/23/2024.
UPDATE: 11/21/2023 - B25-0278 was signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser and enacted with Act Number A25-0310. View Signed Act.
UPDATE: 11/17/2023 - B25-0278 was transmitted to Mayor Muriel Bowser, and her response is due by December 4, 2023. Continue to contact her to ask her to sign the bill. Her response is due by December 4th, 2023.
UPDATE: 11/7/2023 - B25-0278 passed the final reading in the Committee of the Whole by a vote of 13 Yes, 0 No on 11/7/2023. The enrolled version is here.
UPDATE: 9/19/2023 - B25-0278 passed the first reading in the Committee of the Whole by a vote of 13 Yes, 0 No on 9/19/2023. View the Committee Report.
UPDATE: 6/22/2023 - B25-0278 was heard in the Committee of the Whole on 6/22/2023. Continue to contact the Committee of the Whole members until a vote is taken. Sometimes a vote is not taken on the day of the hearing. View the Public Hearing Record HERE.
UPDATE: 5/30/2023 - B25-0278 is scheduled for a hearing with the Committee on the Whole on Thursday, 6/22/2023 at 10:00 AM in the John A. Wilson Building (Track B) Hearing Room 412. A link to the hearing notice, which includes testimony instructions, is here.
UPDATE: 5/2/2023 - B25-0278 was referred to the Committee of the Whole with comments from the Committee on Health.
B25-0278 was introduced by Councilmember Christina Henderson and Chairman Phil Mendelsohn on 4/27/2023.
B25-0278 amends the Immunization of School Students Act of 1979 to remove the requirement that eligible students in the District of Columbia receive a vaccination against COVID-19. This would be done by amending three sections of Code:
- (a) Section 2 (D.C. Official Code § 38-501) is amended by striking paragraph 2A:
Section 38-501 describes what vaccines are required to obtain a "certificate of immunization." Striking paragraph 2A would remove the COVID-19 vaccine from this certificate.
- (b) Section 3a(a) (D.C. Official Code § 38-502.01(a)), is repealed.
This would remove the student requirement to submit a certification of COVID-19 immunization, or a document demonstrating the student is exempt from COVID-19 vaccination, before being admitted to school.
- (c) Section 4 (D.C. Official Code § 38-503) is amended by striking the phrase “; provided, that the Mayor may not issue regulations that conflict with the requirements of section 3a.” and inserting a period in its place."
This original text reads: "The Mayor shall, by regulations, specify the immunization standards to be used for compliance with this chapter, and may also, by regulation, revise the list of requested immunizations; provided, that the Mayor may not issue regulations that conflict with the requirements of § 38-502.01." The new text, if this bill passes, would read: The Mayor shall, by regulations, specify the immunization standards to be used for compliance with this chapter, and may also, by regulation, revise the list of requested immunizations.
NVIC supports this bill because NVIC has maintained that COVID-19 vaccines should have never been mandated. On January 25, 2023, NVIC even submitted a referenced public comment to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (FDA VRBPAC) calling for the withdrawal of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from the market. Link
https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B25-0278?FromSearchResults=true - text, status, and history of B25-0278
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