Oregon Immunization of School Children Initiative (2018)

Oregon Immunization of School Children Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Education and Healthcare
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Oregon Immunization of School Children Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

The measure would have determined the vaccination-related documents required for a child through grade 12 to attend a school or children's facility in Oregon. One of the following documents would have been required to attend a school or children's facility: (a) immunizations certification, (b) physician’s or health department representative’s statement saying that the child is exempted from specific vaccinations due to a medical diagnosis, or (c) parent’s statement declining one or more immunizations due to religious or philosophical beliefs, practices, or ethical values.

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the measure is as follows:

Section 1. The current statutes, ORS 433.267 and ORS 433.269, relating to immunization of school children, are repealed. Section 2. The following shall be added as a new statute to replace ORS 433.267 in ORS Chapter 423: (1) As a condition of attendance in any school or children's facility in this state, every child through grade 12 shall submit to the administrator, unless the school or facility the child attends already has on file a record that indicates that the child has received immunizations against the restrictable diseases prescribed by rules of the Oregon Health Authority as provided in ORS 433.273, one of the following: (a) A document signed by the parent, a practitioner of the healing arts who has within the scope of the practitioner's license the authority to administer immunizations, or a representative of the local health department, certifying the immunizations the child has received; (b) A document signed by a physician or a representative of the local health department stating that the child should be exempted from receiving specified immunization because of indicated medical diagnosis; or (c) A document, on a form prescribed by the authority by rule and signed by the parent of the child, stating that the parent is declining one or more immunizations on behalf of the child. A document submitted under this paragraph shall include a statement signed by the parent that the child has not been immunized as required by this statute because the child is being reared as an adherent to a religion the teachings of which are opposed to such immunization. (2) For purposes of this section, "religion" includes any set of philosophical beliefs, practices, or ethical values. (3) Persons who have been emancipated pursuant to ORS 419B.558 or who have reached the age of consent for medical care pursuant to ORS 109.640 may sign those documents on their own behalf otherwise requiring the signatures of parents under this section. Section 3. The following shall be added as a new statute, to replace ORS 433.269, in ORS Chapter 423: (1) Local health departments shall make available immunizations to be administered under the direction of the local health officer in convenient areas and at convenient times. No person shall be refused service because of inability to pay. (2) The local health department and all schools and children's facilities shall report annually to the Oregon Health Authority on the number of children in the area served and the number of children who are susceptible to restrictable disease as prescribed by the authority's rules pursuant to ORS 433.273. A child exempted under ORS 433.267 shall be considered to be susceptible. (3) The administrator shall maintain immunization records of children, including children in attendance conditionally because of incomplete immunization schedules and children exempted under ORS 433.267. Section 4. This initiative is effective upon passage.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Oregon

Stacy Helen Cayce, Gregory Clark, and Paul Thomas filed the proposal with the Oregon secretary of state on February 17, 2017. Oregon requires that 1,000 signatures be submitted before a ballot title is drafted.

Petitioners were required to collect 88,184 valid signatures to get their initiated state statute on the ballot. Signatures for initiatives needed to be submitted four months prior to the election on November 6, 2018, which was July 6, 2018.

Proponents of the measure did not submit signatures before the signature deadline.

See also

2018 measures

• 2018 ballot measures
• Education on the ballot
• Healthcare on the ballot

Oregon

• Oregon ballot measures
• Oregon ballot measure laws

News and analysis

• Ballot measure lawsuits
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External links

• Initiative 18