Oregon Informed Consent of Parent to Vaccinate Minor Initiative (2018)

Oregon Informed Consent of Parent to Vaccinate Minor Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Healthcare
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Oregon Informed Consent of Parent to Vaccinate Minor Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

The measure would have required that a healthcare provider obtain the informed consent of a parent or legal guardian of a person under 18 years old to administer a vaccination to the minor. The healthcare provider would have also been required to provide the parent or legal guardian with information regarding the benefits and risks of vaccines and National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, a copy of the Vaccine Information Statement, the vaccine package insert, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDCP) “Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases.”

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the measure is as follows:

Section 1. This statute shall be known as the Oregon Parental Rights to Informed Consent as to Vaccines Act. Section 2. Any health care provider who proposes to administer a vaccine to a minor shall first obtain informed consent from the parent, legal representative, or other adult authorized by law to consent on behalf of the minor, before administering such vaccine. Section 3. For purposes of this Act: a.) "minor" means a person under 18 years of age; and b.) "vaccine" means a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table, as established by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Section 4. Before obtaining informed consent, the health care provider shall provide the parent, legal representative, or other adult authorized by law to consent on behalf of the minor, at least the following: a.) relevant information regarding benefits and risks of the vaccine as well as information concerning the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program; b.) a copy of the Vaccine Information Statement, the source of which is clearly identified; c.) the vaccine package insert for each vaccine to be administered, making it available for review; d.) information about the existence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Vaccine Excipient and Media Summary" (also known as the "Pink Book", Appendix B). Section 5. The Oregon Health Authority, the Oregon Department of Education, and any other state or local governmental agency producing informational materials regarding any immunization program, shall include in all such materials a reference to the statutory and administrative rules regarding the availability and process of obtaining exemption from use of any vaccine. Section 6. This Act is effective January 1, 2019.

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
• Healthcare on the ballot

Oregon

• Oregon ballot measures
• Oregon ballot measure laws

News and analysis

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External links

• Initiative 13