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Contested hearing: bill to restore de-identified school immunization reporting draws public-health and privacy debate
Summary
Representative Cunningham's bill to allow schools to submit de-identified, aggregate immunization and exemption data to DPHHS drew support from public-health officials and doctors and objections from privacy-focused citizens and advocacy groups. Sponsor amended data categories to reduce identifiability.
Representative Melody Cunningham told the Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee that House Bill 364 would restart the flow of de-identified, aggregate immunization and exemption information from schools to the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS).
Cunningham said Montana is currently the only surrounding state not reporting this aggregated data and that DPHHS and public-health stakeholders requested statutory authority…
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