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Committee votes not to advance bill requiring quarterly vaccine‑to‑death‑certificate summaries
Summary
The Human Services Committee moved a do‑not‑pass recommendation on House Bill 1519, which would have directed the Department of Health and Human Services to compile quarterly time‑series summaries linking vaccination records and death‑certificate data. Lawmakers cited privacy, HIPAA concerns and limited causal value of aggregated data.
Representative Matt Ruby introduced House Bill 1519, which would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to compile and publish a quarterly time‑series summary that links vaccine records and death‑certificate data for vaccine types administered to more than 20,000 individuals in a quarter.
Ruby described the proposal as a request for ‘‘pretty raw data’’ that supporters said could be used either to examine safety concerns or to reassure the public about vaccine safety. "My understanding is they would take everything that's on the death certificate, and then what is…
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