Massachusetts Advocacy

Welcome to the National Vaccine Information Center Massachusetts 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

The following table lists the active action alerts for all states.

State Date Action
MA 2023-07-21 URGENT Contact Legislators on Bills Threatening Exemptions, Minor Consent, Tracking, Adding Mandates, and More Being Heard Wednesday 7/26

Bills to Watch

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

State Bill Number Date Position Title Status
MA H.2151/S.1458 2023-07-26 OPPOSE Restricts Medical and Religious Exemptions, Expands Minor Consent, Expands Vaccine Tracking and Reporting Status: Heard in Joint Committee on Public Health on 7/26/2023, vote not yet taken

Action: Continue to contact Joint Committee on Public Health Members, your Senator, & Representative, ask them to OPPOSE, submit testimony
MA H.604 (HD 3251) 2023-07-26 OPPOSE Eliminates religious belief exemption for vaccines required for school, requires the department to publish exemption data Status: Heard in Joint Committee on Public Health on 7/26/2023, vote not yet taken

Action: Continue to contact Joint Committee on Public Health Members, your Senator, & Representative, ask them to OPPOSE, submit testimony
MA H.471 2023-07-26 OPPOSE Adds (HPV) human papilloma virus and hepatitis A vaccines to the list of vaccines required for school Status: Heard in Joint Committee on Public Health on 7/26/2023, vote not yet taken

Action: Continue to contact Joint Committee on Public Health Members, your Senator, & Representative, ask them to OPPOSE, submit testimony
MA H.582 2023-07-26 SUPPORT Removes ability of health dept. to deny vaccine medical exemptions, provides privacy protection, protects physicians writing medical exemptions Status: Heard in Joint Committee on Public Health on 7/26/2023, vote not yet taken

Action: Continue to contact Joint Committee on Public Health Members, your Senator, & Representative, ask them to SUPPORT, submit testimony
MA S.1391 (SD 2026) 2023-07-26 OPPOSE Eliminates religious belief exemption for vaccines required for school, requires the department to publish exemption data Status: Heard in Joint Committee on Public Health on 7/26/2023, vote not yet taken

Action: Continue to contact Joint Committee on Public Health Members, your Senator, & Representative, ask them to OPPOSE, submit testimony
MA H.737 (HD 3358) 2023-06-12 SUPPORT Requires healthcare providers who administer vaccines to report adverse events to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System VAERS Status: Heard in the Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management on 6/12/2023 but no available record of vote taken

Action: Continue to contact Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management, your Representative, & Senator, ask them to SUPPORT
MA H.734 (HD 2390) 2023-06-12 SUPPORT Prohibits commonwealth from requiring COVID-19 vaccination or requiring private business to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination Status: Heard in the Joint Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Management on 6/12/2023 but no available record of vote taken

Action: Continue to contact Joint Emergency Preparedness and Management Committee Members, your Representative, & Senator, ask to SUPPORT
MA HD 4175 2023-04-06 OPPOSE Provides state tax credit to individuals who submit proof of COVID-19 Vaccination with tax return Status: Introduced and referred to House Committee on Rules on 4/6/2023

Action: Contact
MA H.2669 2023-03-20 WATCH Prohibits requiring COVID vaccines in public accommodations & state from issuing vaccine passports, firing state employees who refuse COVID vaccines Status: Referred to the Joint Committee on Public Service on 2/16/2023

Action: Contact Joint Committee on Public Service Members, your Representative and Senator with concerns

Announcements

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