House Resolution 125 - Introduced

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2        BY  ALONS, KURTENBACH, CARROLL, and WATTS
  1  3 A Resolution urging the United States Congress to repeal
  1  4    legislation which preempts state laws relating to the
  1  5    mercury content of vaccines.
  1  6    WHEREAS, the United States Congress enacted as part
  1  7 of the Department of Defense Appropriations bill for
  1  8 the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, Pub. L. No.
  1  9 109=148, the Public Readiness and Emergency
  1 10 Preparedness Act; and
  1 11    WHEREAS, the Public Readiness and Emergency
  1 12 Preparedness Act grants immunity to drug companies
  1 13 from liability for injuries caused by their products
  1 14 if the Secretary of Health and Human Services declares
  1 15 these products to be covered countermeasures; and
  1 16    WHEREAS, the legislation preempts any state law
  1 17 which conflicts with a covered countermeasure; and
  1 18    WHEREAS, in the case of a covered countermeasure
  1 19 which is a vaccine, the legislation preempts state
  1 20 legislation prohibiting or limiting the formulation of
  1 21 the vaccine including the use of the mercury=
  1 22 containing preservative thimerosal; and
  1 23    WHEREAS, Iowa law limits the use of mercury in
  1 24 vaccines; NOW THEREFORE,
  1 25    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  1 26 That the House of Representatives urges the United
  1 27 States Congress to pass, and the President to sign,
  1 28 legislation repealing the Public Readiness and
  1 29 Emergency Preparedness Act in order to allow Iowa and
  1 30 other states to limit the use of mercury=containing
  2  1 preservatives in vaccines and to continue to protect
  2  2 and follow the will of their own citizens.
  2  3 LSB 6264YH 81
  2  4 pf:nh/je/5