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HB 5853 was introduced in the House on 5/22/2024. This bill is sponsored by Representative Anthony DeLuca.
HB 5853 requires higher education students to provide vaccine records for tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis as a condition of enrollment.
HB 5853 amends section 3 of the College Student Immunization Act, related to exceptions, to add the following as summarized:
(3) (e) Beginning with the 2024-2025 academic year, post-secondary students are required to produce vaccine records for tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccines (Tdap). If the student cannot provide the dates on which the student received three (3) or more doses of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis containing vaccines, then the student must provide at least one date that the student received the vaccine not more than ten (10) years prior to the beginning of the term of current enrollment. Additional doses of either a Tdap or a tetanus and diphtheria vaccine must be administered in accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) catch-up schedule to complete a series of at least three (3) doses, including any prior doses of any of the following: (1) Tdap vaccine; (2) tetanus and diphtheria vaccine; (3) diphtheria and tetanus vaccine; and (4) diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine.
Upon passage, HB 5853 will be effective immediately.
NVIC OPPOSES HB 5853 because it mandates a pharmaceutical product with known risks as a condition of higher education attendance. NVIC is opposed to all vaccine mandates. This bill removes the ability for a student to provide informed consent without coercion, harassment, or penalty as the Tdap vaccine is required as a condition of enrollment and attendance. These vaccines are given to infants in an attempt to prevent a "100-day whooping cough", so why are they being required for adults? Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry risks of injury and even death and should not be a condition of school attendance. Tdap vaccines consist of a crude brew of whole B. pertussis bacteria heated and washed with formaldehyde, neurotoxic aluminum, mercury, shock-inducing endotoxins, as well as brain damaging bioactive pertussis toxin which is so lethal that researchers use it to deliberately induce acute experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in lab animals. Here are a few facts about the old whole cell pertussis vaccine that stopped being given to infants in America in the late 1990s: 1) in 1933, the whole cell pertussis vaccine was reported to kill infants without warning; 2) In the 1960s, the medical community knew that the vaccine could cause convulsions and brain damage; and 3) By 1982 there was little doubt that it was the most reactive vaccine ever given to infants and children, second only to the smallpox vaccine. Learn more about these vaccines HERE.
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5853&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103 - text, status, and history of HB 5853
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