The NVIC has sent out the following. Please click on the links and learn what you can do to help and call some of the senators. Thank-you.
A
hearing on AB2109 is scheduled in the Senate Health Committee for June
27th at 1:30 P.M. in the John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203) at the California State Capitol,
1301
10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. Please be there if you can.
The committee
hearing agenda is posted here: http://shea.senate.ca.gov/agenda.
The text of most
current version of AB2109 is posted here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2101-2150/ab_2109_bill_20120620_amended_sen_v97.html.
ACTION
NEEDED:
1)
Call
and write members of the Senate Health Committee and tell them to VOTE NO on
AB2109.
Please see the contact information in the table below.
2)
Plan
on attending the hearing on June 27th.
Please
contact your California NVIC State Directors Dawn Winkler and Michelle Gutierrez
at CADirector@NVICAdvocacy.org if you are able to
attend the hearing. You can also call Dawn Winkler at 530-283-1018. You can
either give oral testimony, submit written testimony, and/or just register in
opposition to the bill. We need a strong constituency of Californians opposing
this bill to be in attendance! If you would like to provide written information
to the committee, have 12 copies available for members and staff. Please see
more information below from Dawn Winkler if you are attending.
3)
BRING
your video and still cameras to the capitol and film and take
pictures! Great advice from
Vermont’s NVIC State Director Jennifer Stella, who recently helped lead the
fight against an attack on the philosophical exemption in Vermont, is to record
everything in the legislative process. Legislators need to know the families in
California are watching and keeping track of what they say and do to affect
their rights! If you are able to video record the hearing or take pictures of
the hearing room and people inside testifying, please email our research
assistant and Colorado State Director, Cindy Loveland at CODirector@NVICAdvocacy.org and she will share
with you instructions after the hearing for helping us archive and save the
video and pictures.
4)
Send
this to as many friends and family in California that you can and ask them to
please register for the NVIC Advocacy Portal at http://NVICAdvocacy.org so
they can get added to this state email list and receive updates on how they can
continue to help fight this bill.
POINTS TO BE MADE TO
THE SENATORS:
The most important
point to make with Senators is to let them know that if parents are unable to
comply with the requirement in AB2109 to have a health care practitioner meet
with them and sign their exemption form, their child cannot go to school!!!
This can lead to truancy charges and a lapse in the child’s education.
Listed below are
some of the many valid reasons why families who use the personal belief
exemption may not be able to comply with this burdensome and expensive proposed
mandate.
·
The
parent cannot find a physician who will accept appointments with unvaccinated or
partially vaccinated children in their practice. Parents are being kicked out of
medical practices all over California for not fully
vaccinating.
·
The
healthcare practitioner refuses to sign the form because nothing in the bill
requires them to.
·
It
is against the parent’s religion to go to the type of healthcare practitioner
required to sign the form.
·
The
parent cannot afford the work time off or money for a visit to the healthcare
practitioner to get the form signed, especially if they have multiple
children.
·
The
parent selectively vaccinates and utilizes an RN, a school nurse or a pharmacist
who can all administer vaccines in CA, but cannot sign the
form.
·
The
parent only utilizes alternative medicine.
·
The
parent only has access to a health department or school clinic that only has an
RN or School Nurse on staff, who is not allowed to sign.
·
The
parent currently is in the Healthy Families program and may have difficulty
finding a medical provider after the Healthy Families Program is rolled over to
Medi-Cal.
·
The
parent knows a child (their own child, a relative, a neighbor, a friend's child,
a child in their community) who has been harmed, disabled, made chronically ill,
or killed by their state mandated vaccines, and as a result, the parent does not
to have their child fully vaccinated.
SENATE HEALTH
COMMITTEE CONTACT INFORMATION:
|
Senator
|
Capitol Phone and Fax
Number
|
District Phone and Fax
Number
|
Contact Form or Email
|
|
Ed Hernandez (D) –
Chair
|
Phone:
(916) 651-4024
Fax:
(916) 445-0485
|
West
Covina
Phone:
(626) 430-2499
Fax:
(626) 430-2494
|
|
|
Tom Harman (R) – Vice
Chair
|
Phone: (916) 651-4035
Fax: (916) 445-9263
|
Costa
Mesa
Phone: (714) 957-4555
Fax: (714) 957-4560
|
|
|
Elaine Alquist
(D)
|
Phone:
(916)651-4013
Fax:
(916)324-0283
|
Gilroy
Phone:
(408)847-6101
Fax:
(408)847-6096
|
|
|
Joel Anderson
(R)
|
Phone: (916)
651-4036
Fax: (916) 447-9008 |
Temecula
Phone: 951-676-1020
Fax: (951) 676-1030
El
Cajon Phone: (619) 596-3136
Fax: (619) 596-3140 |
|
|
Sam Blakeslee
(R)
|
Phone: (916)
651-4015
Fax: (916) 445-8081 |
San Luis
Obispo
Phone: (916) 651-4015
Fax: (916) 445-8081 |
|
|
Kevin de Leon
(D)
|
Phone: (916)
651-4022
Fax: (916)
327-8817
|
Los
Angeles
Phone: (213)
612-9566
Fax: (213)
612-9591
|
|
|
Mark DeSaulnier
(D)
|
Phone:
(916) 651-4007
Fax: (916) 445-2527 |
Walnut
Creek
Phone:
(925) 942-6082
Fax: (925) 942-6087 |
|
|
Michael Rubio
(D)
|
Phone: (916)
651-4016
Fax: (916) 327-5989 |
Fresno
Phone: (559)
264-3070
Fax: (559) 445-6506
Bakersfield
Phone: (661)
395-2620
Fax: (661) 395-2622 |
|
|
Lois Wolk (D) Senate
Sponsor for AB2109
|
Phone: (916)
651-4005
Fax:
(916)323-2304
|
Vacaville
Phone:
(707)454-3808
Fax: (707)
454-3811
Stockton
Phone:
(209)948-7930
Fax: (209)
948-7993
|
|
HEARING NOTES FROM
CALIFORNIA NVIC STATE DIRECTOR DAWN WINKLER:
Please, if at all
possible, plan to attend the hearing in the Senate Health committee on this
Wednesday, June 27th at 1:30 at the State Capitol in room 4203. It is
best to arrive around noon to find parking and get to the hearing room.
Please let me know if
you are coming at CADirector@NVICAdvocacy.org. There is still
much to be figured out with respect to people testifying. Everyone should get a
couple of minutes, but there will be a few who get more and we need to determine
who those will be. We'll have stickers and wearing black seemed to look nice and
work well last time. Make a sign if you like, but it will have to go in the
trash before you go into the building. We'll meet outside at the main steps
again at noon. By all means, bring your children if you can.
Above is the contact
list again for the committee. More faxes and phone calls certainly would not
hurt.
I am told by the
chair, Hernandez, that more testimony will be allowed and that people won't be
cut off if they stay within reason. I can't guarantee anything, but in my
experience, the Senate side seems to accomodate more testimony from more people.
So prepare about 2 minutes. I do not know how long this hearing will go on or
when our bill will be up so you need to be prepared to go with the flow and be
ready for the long haul. Bring snacks and drinks.
I look forward to
seeing as many of you as possible and if you can't be there, please keep the
faxes and calls rolling in to the committe up until 1:30 on
Wednesday.
Thank you so much to
everyone for your help and support through these last 4 months! I have no idea
what Wednesday's outcome will be, but we MUST try our best to save parental
rights and medical freedom in California. We do have some hope as there have
been some recent developments which may or may not go anywhere, but it is hope
nonetheless.
Hope to see many of
you there!!!
In Health and
Liberty,
Dawn Winkler
CA State Co-Director
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
www.nvicadvocacy.org
Executive Director
Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI)
hapi.vaxinfo@gmail.com
530-283-1018
970-209-3919
Sincerely,
Dawn Winkler
CA State Co-Director
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
www.nvicadvocacy.org
Executive Director
Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI)
hapi.vaxinfo@gmail.com
530-283-1018
970-209-3919
Sincerely,
Dawn
Richardson, Director of Advocacy
National Vaccine Information Center
http://NVIC.org and http://NVICAdvocacy.org
Dawn@NVICAdvocacy.org
National Vaccine Information Center
http://NVIC.org and http://NVICAdvocacy.org
Dawn@NVICAdvocacy.org
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