Resources Relating to Mandated Vaccines

The mandated vaccine issue is about liberty, not the effectiveness of vaccines, but for those interested, here is some information that dispels the notion that vaccines have been a major influence on great reductions of infectious disease.

 

Vaccine Mandate Statute Link.

Chapter 167.181 RSMo lists school attendance vaccine madates AND exemptions.

In spite of all the hype you hear, your child DOES NOT have to be vaccinated to attend school. In Missouri, there are TWO exemption allowed for in statute. (See 167.181 RSMo, below.) One is the medical exemption and the other is a religious exemption.

And regardless of what they try to tell you, ALL you have to do to secure the religious exemption is "object in writing" to the school administrator. You do not have to sign any other documents, receive counseling from a Health Department nurse or jump through any other hoops. Note the yellow highlighted section, below.

Note that the religious believe is your personal belief, regardless of what your church teaches or even if you are not a member of any church.

Print this statute and take it to your school when you seek the exemption. If they don't accept a simple objection in writing, call your state rep or senator -- it's their job to protect you from oppressive government actors.

 167.181.1  The department of health and senior services, after consultation with the department of elementary and secondary education, shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the immunization against poliomyelitis, rubella, rubeola, mumps, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, and hepatitis B, to be required of children attending public, private, parochial or parish schools.  Such rules and regulations may modify the immunizations that are required of children in this subsection.  The immunizations required and the manner and frequency of their administration shall conform to recognized standards of medical practice.  The department of health and senior services shall supervise and secure the enforcement of the required immunization program.

  2.  It is unlawful for any student to attend school unless he has been immunized as required under the rules and regulations of the department of health and senior services, and can provide satisfactory evidence of such immunization; except that if he produces satisfactory evidence of having begun the process of immunization, he may continue to attend school as long as the immunization process is being accomplished in the prescribed manner.  It is unlawful for any parent or guardian to refuse or neglect to have his child immunized as required by this section, unless the child is properly exempted.

  3.  This section shall not apply to any child if one parent or guardian objects in writing to his school administrator against the immunization of the child, because of religious beliefs or medical contraindications.  In cases where any such objection is for reasons of medical contraindications, a statement from a duly licensed physician must also be provided to the school administrator.

  4.  Each school superintendent, whether of a public, private, parochial or parish school, shall cause to be prepared a record showing the immunization status of every child enrolled in or attending a school under his jurisdiction.  The name of any parent or guardian who neglects or refuses to permit a nonexempted child to be immunized against diseases as required by the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be reported by the school superintendent to the department of health and senior services.

  5.  The immunization required may be done by any duly licensed physician or by someone under his direction.  If the parent or guardian is unable to pay, the child shall be immunized at public expense by a physician or nurse at or from the county, district, city public health center or a school nurse or by a nurse or physician in the private office or clinic of the child's personal physician with the costs of immunization paid through the state Medicaid program, private insurance or in a manner to be determined by the department of health and senior services subject to state and federal appropriations, and after consultation with the school superintendent and the advisory committee established in section 192.630.  When a child receives his or her immunization, the treating physician may also administer the appropriate fluoride treatment to the child's teeth.

  6.  Funds for the administration of this section and for the purchase of vaccines for children of families unable to afford them shall be appropriated to the department of health and senior services from general revenue or from federal funds if available.

  7.  No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536.  Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section  536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028.  This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2001, shall be invalid and void.


 
A better approach: Ratification by Concurrent Majority

Virtually every law in American is made by Concurrent Majority, other than ratifying amendments to state constitution.

The U.S. Constitution is not ratified by a popular vote -- it is ratified by a concurrent majority consensus of the states. Every legislature is made up of representatives of citizens from districts from a broad geographic area and it takes a consensus of those areas to pass a bill.

Even the president is selected by concurrent majority – that's what the Electoral College is.

HJR 132 would require a concurrent majority to amend the Missouri Constitution.

It requires two conditions be met for ratification: 1) A statewide majority popular vote, just as we have now, and 2) A majority popular vote in more than half the state House districts.

This requirement applies to initiative, legislative, and convention proposed amendments (or entire constitution in the case of a convention).

 
   

 

 

Intro to the vaccine issue, from a liberty perspective.

CDC Chart
Note that infectious disease was on a steady decline long before all but perhaps one of the current vaccines were even invented. (Most vaccines were developed in the 1950s and later. Polio was practically whipped before the polio vaccine came into general use.) Many factors, including better sanitation and antibiotics have been the primary causes of the improvement in our mortality rates.
US Deaths
State law for school age kids. State law for pre-schools.
Note that no vaccine laws apply to homeschooled kids.
Vaccine ingredient list.

Statutory History of Mandated Vaccine Policy in Missouri
RSMo 167.181

< 1963
Vaccines required......: polio, smallpox, diphtheria
Exemptions available: ?

1972
Vaccines required......: polio, smallpox, rubella, rubeola, diphtheria
Exemptions available: parent can object in writing to school administrator

1973
Vaccines required......: polio, smallpox, rubella, rubeola, diphtheria [smallpox removed HB 342?]
Exemptions available: parent can object in writing to school administrator

1992
Vaccines required......: polio, rubella, rubeola, mumps, diphtheria
Exemptions available: parent can object in writing to school administrator, but only for religious reasons or with a physician’s statement (SB 611)

1993?
Vaccines required......: polio, rubella, rubeola, mumps, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria (HB 522)
Exemptions available: parent can object in writing to school administrator, but only for religious reasons or with a physician’s statement

1996
Vaccines required......: polio, rubella, rubeola, mumps, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, Hep B (HB 904, 788, 966)
Exemptions available: parent can object in writing to school administrator, but only for religious reasons or with a physician’s statement
(The Health Department was also given broader rule making authority.)

2006
Vaccines required......: poliomyelitis, rubella, rubeola, mumps, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, and hepatitis B (Chickenpox by rule)
Exemptions available: parent can object in writing to school administrator, but only for religious reasons or with a physician’s statement

 
How Vaccinations Work
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