ACTION ALERT: Calls and Emails in Opposition Needed Before Hearing Tuesday 1/23/2018 3:30 p.m.

[Relased by the Florida National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) Advocacy Team]

• forces tracking by removing the legal right to refuse participation -Title XXIX 381.003 (1) (e) 2 in current law which guarantees the right of a parent or guardian to refuse to have their child included in the Florida State immunization registry/tracking system: “The parent or guardian of a child may refuse to have the child included in the immunization registry by signing a form obtained from the department, or from the health care practitioner or entity that provides the immunization, which indicates that the parent or guardian does not wish to have the child included in the immunization registry” [Bill Lines 58-64];
• automatically populates the intrusive tracking system with every newborn's birth certificate data behind parents' backs without their consent ignoring if a parent doesn't want their child tracked and eliminating their ability to refuse [Bill Line 52];
• requires all health care practitioners who administer vaccines to children from birth to 18 years of age to report vaccinations and personal information to the registry/tracking system even if somebody doesn’t want their child or themselves to be included [Bill Lines 71-77];
• substantially expands the current registry/tracking system to adults by requiring the reporting of shots given to college students at the college or university health care facility [Bill Lines 71-77];
• adds the option for reporting of any adult vaccinations on an optional basis with no ability to refuse or remove data later [Bill Lines 77-79];
• permits data to be uploaded from existing automated systems without the knowledge or consent of the person to whom the information is related with no way to get out later [Bill Lines 79-81];
• expands the scope of how the tracking system can be used in the future to unlimited unchecked purposes at the whim of the health department as restrictions defining the purpose are deleted from current statute and instead are left open ended through the rule process [Bill Lines 101-118];
• eliminates the specific rule making authority for the health dept. to adopt rules which allow parents or guardians to refuse participation in the registry/tracking system [Bill Lines 113-114];
• expands tracking to non-attending students taking exclusively online classes by deleting the word "present" in existing statute [Bill Line 129];
• and forces all children attending K-12 public or private school in Florida, including those whose families don't want their children in an intrusive state vaccine surveillance and enforcement database, to be electronically tracked statewide by requiring an online certification of immunization on file with the state registry and eliminating the option of filing paper certificates of immunization locally at the school only [Bill Lines 124-138].