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Oregon Vaccine Safety Study Initiative (2018)
| Oregon Vaccine Safety Study Initiative | |
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| Election date November 6, 2018 | |
| Topic Healthcare | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Vaccine Safety Study Initiative was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 6, 2018.
The measure would have required the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study on vaccinations and health outcomes, including the incidence or risk of autism spectrum disorders, chronic conditions, and neurological conditions.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is as follows:[1]
Section 1. This statute shall be known as the Oregon Vaccine Safety Study Act. Section 2. The Oregon Health Authority shall conduct or support a comprehensive study to compare total health outcomes, including the incidence and risk of autism, in vaccinated populations in Oregon with such outcomes in unvaccinated populations in Oregon, and to determine whether exposure to vaccines or vaccine components is associated with autism spectrum disorders, chronic conditions, or other neurological conditions. Section 3. The Oregon Health Authority shall seek to include in the study under this Act populations in Oregon that have traditionally remained unvaccinated for religious or other reasons, which populations may include Old Order Amish, Mennonites, members of clinical practices who choose alternative medical practices, practitioners of anthroposopshic lifestyles, and others who have chosen not to be vaccinated. The Oregon Health Authority may utilize existing data of vaccination rates by school in the study. Section 4. The Oregon Health Authority shall ensure that any investigator carrying out the study under this Act:
Section 5. To facilitate further research by the Oregon Health Authority or others, the Oregon Health Authority shall ensure the preservation of all data, including all data sets, collected or used for purposes of the study under this Act. All data collected under this Act shall be subject to security procedures traditionally used in medical research to protect the privacy of persons whose data may be collected. Section 6. Any study under this Act shall be conducted in such fashion so as to avoid any encouragement or any discouragement for study participants to remain unvaccinated or to receive any vaccine. Section 7. This Act is effective upon passage. Within 120 day of passage of this Act, The Oregon Health Authority shall issue a request for proposals to conduct the study required by this Act. Not later than 120 days after receipt of any such proposal, the Oregon Health Authority shall approve or disapprove the proposal. If the Oregon Health Authority disapproves the proposal, the Oregon Health Authority shall provide the involved applicant with a written explanation of the reasons for the disapproval. |
Path to the ballot
Stacy Helen Cayce, Gregory Clark, and Paul Thomas filed the proposal with the Oregon secretary of state on February 17, 2017.[2] 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.[3]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oregon Secretary of State, "Complete Text of Initiative," February 17, 2017
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Initiative 14," accessed February 21, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff Writer, Telephone communication with Oregon Secretary of State's office, July 9, 2018.
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