Oregon Vaccine Consumer Protection Office Initiative (2018)

Oregon Vaccine Consumer Protection Office Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic Healthcare
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Oregon Vaccine Consumer Protection Office Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.

The measure would have created a Vaccine Consumer Protection Office (VCPO) within the Oregon Health Authority. VCPO would have been tasked with investigating potential vaccine injuries and evaluating claims, reviewing instances of potential coercion related to the issuance of a vaccine, providing information about vaccine injuries and immunizations, promoting public awareness of the Vaccine Injury Table, and writing and publicizing an Oregon Vaccine Information Statement, among other tasks.

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the measure is as follows:

Section 1. This Act shall be known as the Oregon Vaccine Consumer Protection Act. Section 2. The Vaccine Consumer Protection Program is established with the Oregon Health Authority. The Vaccine Consumer Protection Office is established within the Oregon Health Authority to carry out the following: a.) Provide information about vaccine injuries and immunizations to health care providers and the public. b.) Promote public awareness of the Vaccine Injury Table through development and implementation of an educational outreach program that provides, at a minimum, the information contained in the Vaccine Injury Table to any individual in the state who requests information related to vaccine injuries or immunizations; c.) Educate health care providers on the contents of the Vaccine Injury Table to help providers better screen for and diagnose adverse events caused by vaccines. d.) Require health care providers to use vaccine package inserts that describe the warnings, precautions and adverse reactions potentially caused by a particular vaccine during the screening and diagnosing of an illness, disability, injury or adverse condition caused by vaccines; e.) Write and publicize an Oregon Vaccine Information Statement. The statement must include evidence-based information about vaccines and their potentially adverse side effects, inform patients about their right to opt out of vaccine requirements based on religious and philosophical grounds, and offer a step-by-step explanation about how to pursue legal recourse if an individual suspects a vaccine injury has occurred. When drafting the statement, the Vaccine Consumer Protection Office shall consult with nationally recognized vaccine safety advocates and the families of Oregon children who have been injured by vaccines. f.) Investigate potential vaccine injuries; g.) Evaluate vaccine injury claims; h.) Review instances of potential coercion by health care providers related to the issuance of a vaccine, and require health care providers who are suspected of coercion to retract any inaccurate statements or face discipline by the applicable professional licensing entity; i.) Educate health care providers about the processes for handling vaccine injury claims that are brought against their practice; and j.) Provide individuals with referrals to health care providers that treat vaccine injuries and to attorneys that handle claims related to vaccine injuries. Section 3. As used in this Act, the following terms have the following meanings: a.) "Health Care Provider" means a physician, nurse, clinic, hospital or other entity licensed by this state to provide health care services that administers vaccine. b.) "Vaccine Injury Table" means that Vaccine Injury Table of covered vaccines and associated injuries established by 42 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 100.3 (2000), as amended. Section 4. The Oregon Health Authority Act shall adopt rules to implement this Act. Section 5. This Act is effective April 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 17