Maine Advocacy

Welcome to the National Vaccine Information Center Maine 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
ME LD 869/SP 366 2023-03-24 SUPPORT Prohibits COVID-19 vaccines and vaccines under emergency use authorization from being required for school by the ME Director of Disease Control Scheduled for hearing in Joint Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs on 4/3/2023 at 10:00AM in Cross Building, Room 208

Action: Contact Joint Committee on Education & Cultural Affairs Members, your Senator, & Representative, ask them to SUPPORT
ME LD 1098/ HP 693 2023-03-24 SUPPORT Reinstates religious and philosophical belief exemptions to vaccines required for school that were eliminated in 2019 Scheduled for hearing in Joint Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs on 4/3/2023 at 10:00AM in Cross Building, Room 208

Action: Contact Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs Members, your Representative, & Senator, ask them to SUPPORT
ME LD 51/HP 26 2023-03-24 SUPPORT Reinstates religious & philosophical belief exemptions to vaccines required for students & nursery school employees Scheduled for hearing in House Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs on 4/3/2023 at 10:00AM in Cross Building, Room 208

Action: Contact Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs Members, your Representative & Senator, ask to SUPPORT
ME LD 1228/HP 776 2023-03-22 SUPPORT Prohibits emergency use vaccine mandates for University of Maine System, the Maine Community College System and the Maine Maritime Academy Scheduled for a hearing in the Joint Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs on 4/3/2023

Action: Contact Joint Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs Members, your Representative and Senator, ask them to SUPPORT
ME LD 282/ HP 180 2023-03-17 OPPOSE Allows Department of Health & Human Services to authorize standing vaccine orders for certain state funded medical programs Scheduled for hearing in Committee on Health & Human Services 3/17/2023 at 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 209

Action: Contact Committee on Health & Human Services Members, your House Member & Senator, ask to OPPOSE
ME LD 601/HP 378 2023-02-14 SUPPORT Allows emergency medical services persons to provide treatment without having been vaccinated against COVID-19 Referred to Committee On Health & Human Services on 2/14/2023

Action: Contact Committee On Health & Human Services Members, your Representative & Senator, ask them to SUPPORT
ME LD 172/HP 113 2023-01-17 SUPPORT Reinstates religious & philosophical exemptions from immunization requirements for health care workers Introduced, referred to Joint Health & Human Services Committee on 1/17/2023

Action: Contact Joint Health & Human Services Committee Members, your Representative, & Senator, ask to SUPPORT
ME LD 59/HP 34 2023-01-04 SUPPORT Prohibits including any COVID-19 vaccines on the list of vaccines available through the Universal Childhood Immunization Program Introduced and referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services on 1/4/2022

Action: Contact Health and Human Services Committee Members, your Representative & Senator, ask to SUPPORT

Announcements

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