Iowa Advocacy

Welcome to the National Vaccine Information Center Iowa State Team page. This page, along with the email updates you will receive, will help keep you informed of what you can do in your state to help you protect and expand your rights to informed consent to vaccination.

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Action Needed Now

There are no active action alerts at this time, but please check back soon.

Bills to Watch

The following table lists the active bills of interest for all states.

State Bill Number Date Position Title Status
IA HF 2047 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Adds vaccination status to existing civil rights protections Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in House Judiciary Committee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 2149 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Requires medical examiner investigations of infant deaths age 0 to 3 to include previous vaccination Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in Senate Health & Human Services Subcommittee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 2271 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Creates publicly available anonymized biographical information & vaccine record data for deceased individuals Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in Senate Health & Human Services Subcommittee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2528 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Requires healthcare provider verbally provide patient w/ VICP info incl liability protection, req.'s vaccine advertisements disclose limited liability Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in House Health and Human Services Committee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2333 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Establishes a state vaccine adverse event reporting system & vaccine injury compensation program that replicates federal programs Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in House Health and Human Services Committee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 45 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Prohibits state labor commissioner from enforcing federal occupational safety and health standards relating to COVID-19 Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in Senate before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HJR 5 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Amends the state constitution protecting the right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, vaccine or prophylactic Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 262 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Establishes that exemptions for vaccines required for school apply at all times including in times of emergency, pandemic, or epidemic Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 166 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Prohibits minors from being able to consent to vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases on the federal vaccine injury table Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2280 (HF 464) (HF 283) 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Eliminates the requirement that students in independent private instruction provide proof of vaccination to the district Status: HF 2280 died; passed full House on 3/7/2024; failed to be scheduled for hearing in Senate Education Committee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 99 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Requires vaccine information on death investigation forms for children under 3 Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in Senate before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 303/SF 91 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Removes ability of health dept to order vaccination during a public health disaster, removes restrictive language in religious belief exemption Status: HF 303 & SF 91 died; carryovers from 2023 failed to move in their originating chamber before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2071 2024-04-20 OPPOSE Prohibits vaccine mandates unless certain conditions are met Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in House Judiciary Committee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 323 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Prohibits employers from inquiring in employee's COVID vaccination status or test results & requiring test for past or current COVID infection Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in Senate before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 455 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Expands Iowa Civil Rights Act to include medical or vaccination status as protected class Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 238 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Requires vaccine information on death investigation forms for individuals 3 and older Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in Senate before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HSB 178 2024-04-20 OPPOSE Expands vaccine registry to add all adult vaccines, registry consent refusal forms are also submitted, all vaccine administrators must be registered Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 395 2024-04-20 OPPOSE Requires health care providers who are required to report to the statewide immunization registry to submit informed consent form to the registry Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in Senate before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 507 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Prohibits the CDC and WHO from having jurisdiction in Iowa, increases consumer privacy in state vaccine tracking system Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 369 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Allows employees injured by an employer-mandate COVID-19 vaccine to file civil suit against employer if they were injured by the vaccine Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2045/SF 2196 (SF 2003) 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Requires school communication recommending vaccines to include information on exemptions, applies to registration and websites of schools & child care Status: HF 2045 died, failed to be sched for hearing in House Hlth & Hum Comm | SF 2196 died, Senate failed to concur w/ House Amend; session ended 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA SF 2064 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Excepts STD vaccines from existing law granting a minor legal capacity to consent to medical treatment to prevent or treat STDs Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for Senate floor vote before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2044 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Excepts vaccines on vaccine injury table from existing law granting a minor legal capacity to consent to medical treatment to prevent or treat STDs Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in House Health and Human Services Committee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2055 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Prohibits all school or child care vaccine requirements & COVID-19 vaccine for post-secondary edu, relaxes vaccine documentation for foster care Status: Died, failed to be scheduled for hearing in House Health and Human Services Committee before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2041/SF 2058 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Requires DHHS to require health care provider to obtain opt-in written informed consent prior to reporting vaccine administration to registry or IHIN Status: HF 2041 & SF 2058 died; failed to be scheduled for committee/subcommittee hearing in their originating chamber before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 187 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Removes requirement that schools teach about HPV Vaccines Status: Died, carryover from 2023 failed to move in House before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE
IA HF 2090/SF 2030 2024-04-20 SUPPORT Prohibits monitoring & penalizing someone at risk for infection, removes vaccination orders & replaces w/ recommendations, fixes religious exemption Status: HF 2090 & SF 2030 died; failed to be scheduled for subcommittee hearing in their originating chamber before 2024 session ended on 4/20/2024

Action: NONE

Announcements

There are no announcements available at this time, but please check back soon.