2025 Monitored Bills

HB2012: Prevents Hospitals and employers from requiring a vaccine that has Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approval.

  • Employers and hospitals should have the ability to set policies in health emergencies that keep themselves and their patients/clients safe.

  • Part of the EUA approval process requires a determination that the risks of the disease severely outweigh the risks of an expedited approval process. So we know that this vaccine would only ever receive EUA approval if it was a deadly disease.

HB2058: Requires colleges, universities, and technical schools, to provide an exemption for required vaccines.

  • the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is the only vaccine reuired for general attendance at ASU, NAU, and UofA.

  • Participation in the medical, nursing, and pharmacy colleges require additional vaccinations, most of which are part of the routine childhood immunization schedule and already completed by the age of 4.

  • These colleges require clinical rotations into healthcare settings where vulnerable populations are.

HB2063: This Bill requires that any and every communication from schools to parents about immunization requirements must include information about available exemptions.

  • Parents already know about personal and religious exemptions (available for all students), which is evidenced by the fact that Arizona's school exemption rates go up every year. This is especially important for families with medically fragile children or other family members.

  • This change results in a commercial to parents for exemptions. This will only increase convenience exemptions (parents who are not opposed to vaccination, but find it easier to sign an exemption form rather than vaccinate).

HB2257: This Bill prevents DCS from continuing its current policy of not placing children ages 0-5 with unvaccinated foster families. However, current policy allows these children to be placed with extended family who are unvaccinated so long as the biological parents consent.

  • it is dangerous to place infants and toddlers with unvaccinated stranger families. There is no shortage of vaccinated foster families willing to take in these young children, so they should be placed in a safe, vaccinated, home.