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A1523 was introduced in the Assembly and referred to the Assembly Health Committee on 1/9/2024. This bill is sponsored by Assemblyman Gerard Scharfenberger.
A1523 prohibits the automatic registration of individuals and children to have their vaccine information entered into the New Jersey Immunization Information System. Under current law, newborns who are born on or after January 1, 1998, are automatically enrolled in the vaccine tracking system unless the parent provides a written request not to be enrolled as stated in the bill's Statement of Purpose. The new language will prohibit automatic enrollment and instead require the individual or the parent or legal guardian of an individual under the age of 18 to give written request in order to be enrolled.
A1523 amends Title 26, regarding health and vital statistics, to include the following as summarized:
(3) An individual shall only be enrolled in the registry upon the written request of the individual, the individual's parent, or their legal guardian.
NVIC SUPPORTS A1523 because it will prohibit the state from using confidential medical information that could be used to exploit or punish an individual or the child of a parent who does not wish to take a certain vaccine. NVIC is opposed to all involuntary assumed consent vaccine tracking. Vaccination records are private health information that should be kept between an individual and their health care provider, not a source of information for the government or entity to use for their own means especially to force or harass an individual or parent of a child into taking a vaccine they don't want or need for themselves or their child. An improvement on this bill would be to add penalties for entities that fail to adhere to this statute.
https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/A1523 - text, status, and history of A1523
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