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Committee hears HB364 to restore de-identified school immunization reporting to public health
Summary
Representative Melody Cunningham27s bill would allow schools to resume sending de-identified, aggregate immunization and exemption counts to the Department of Public Health and Human Services; public health and medical groups testified heavily in favor while privacy-concerned opponents urged caution.
Representative Melody Cunningham told the Senate Education Committee that House Bill 364 would restore the practice of schools submitting de-identified, aggregate immunization and exemption counts to the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS), a process that ended in 2021. Cunningham said the change would "enable Montana schools to once again submit anonymous...aggregate information on immunizations and exemptions to DPHHS," and framed it as a public-health preparedness measure.
DPHHS bureau chief Becky Wehner and…
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