While the legislative session is over for the year, we are working on a plan for next year’s session.
Now is a great time to meet with your representatives and candidates to encourage them to get on board with health choice!
We are the majority- we just need to get the conversation started…
Stay tuned this winter for New Legislative Updates!
2024 Session NOTES:
Urge the Vermont Legislature to MOVE on Bill 182
In the spring of 2024 many Vermonters contacted their legislators and encouraged them to MOVE on Bill 182:
“This bill proposes to recognize and to prohibit any interference with an individual’s rights to bodily autonomy, to make the individual’s own health care decisions, and to be free to accept or refuse any health or medical intervention, testing, treatment, or vaccine based on the individual’s own religious, conscientious, or personal beliefs.”
While the legislature failed to act on 182 last session, many people rallied, and as a result our representatives are becoming aware that our health freedoms need protection.
Another health freedom bill will be introduced again in 2025. As this process moves forward, it is very helpful if citizens let their representatives at every level hear from them about the importance of being able to refuse medical interventions and devices.
Please help:
1. Write to the members of the House Committee on Human Services in support of HB 182. Encourage them to begin discussing the bill and hearing from the public:
Here is an email list of the members and staff of the House Committee on Human Services: twood@leg.state.vt.us, jbrumsted@leg.state.vt.us, adonahue@leg.state.vt.us, rgarofano@leg.state.vt.us, jgregoire@leg.state.vt.us, nhyman@leg.state.vt.us, jmcgill@leg.state.vt.us, Dnoyes@leg.state.vt.us, kpajala@leg.state.vt.us, tsmall@leg.state.vt.us, dwhitman@leg.state.vt.us, lmorse@leg.state.vt.us
Send a copy to the Speaker of the House, Jill Krowinski:jkrowinski@leg.state.vt.us
2. Contact your representatives and tell them why health choice is important to you:
You can find contact information for your legislators here:
https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/
Call the Statehouse and leave a message for a representative:1-802-828-8228
3. Thank and encourage sponsors of the bill: mhigley@leg.state.vt.us & cwilson@leg.state.vt.us
Spread the Word:
Download a copy of the Announcement (with links) & Send it to your Friends:
https://amyvt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Support-HB-182-FINAL.pdf
MORE INFORMATION:
Have you been frustrated by government interference in you and your family’s health care decisions?
The past four years have clearly demonstrated the willingness of local and state officials, as well as others who deem themselves “authorities” – including employers, educators, and health care providers- to impose medical interventions, testing, treatments, and vaccines onto others. Their willingness to use coercive tactics to gain “compliance” has been frightening.
We all realize how difficult this conversation has been for the past four years, and many feel an urgency to put Covid behind us. Yet to this day many Vermonters working in health care, or seeking health care services, are still suffering under the same senseless and unscientific Covid health policies. And without a debate, many of our leaders in the statehouse and elsewhere remain poised and ready to pull all the Covid power-plays out again in the future.
HB 182 is a powerful bill. For those who have been on the receiving end of the mandates, policies, and restrictions over the past four years, the words in this bill are like music to our ears.
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We must bring the health care choice and freedom debate to the public sphere, and HB 182 is a good place to start.
Please take the time to let our representatives know that the majority of Vermonters support health care choice, free of coercion.
Write to the members of the House Committee on Human Services in support of HB 182. Encourage them to begin discussing the bill and to hear from the public.
You can refer to the parts of the bill that are meaningful to you. (Full-text below/HB 182.) Personal stories of how your life and the lives of those you love have been impacted will help the legislators understand why this is so important. We can always win on the level of love and human connection.
HOUSE BILL 182
As Introduced by Representatives Higley of Lowell and Wilson of Lyndon
Subject: Health; health care decision making; bodily autonomy
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes to recognize and to prohibit any interference with an individual’s rights to bodily autonomy, to make the individual’s own health care decisions, and to be free to accept or refuse any health or medical intervention, testing, treatment, or vaccine based on the individual’s own religious, conscientious, or personal beliefs.
An act relating to bodily autonomy and health care decision making
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. 1. 18 V.S.A. chapter 15 is added to read:
CHAPTER 15. RIGHTS TO BODILY AUTONOMY AND HEALTH CARE DECISION MAKING
§ 851. STATEMENT OF POLICY
The State of Vermont recognizes the rights of each individual to bodily autonomy, to make the individual’s own health care decisions, and to be free to accept or refuse any health or medical intervention, testing, treatment, or vaccine based on the individual’s own religious, conscientious, or personal beliefs.
§ 852. COERCION AND INTERFERENCE PROHIBITED 4 (a)(1)Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the State of Vermont; its agencies, subdivisions, instrumentalities, and designees; and all other employers, businesses, nonprofit organizations, institutions, facilities, schools, churches and other places of worship, travel carriers, licensing authorities, and other individuals and public and private and entities shall not deny, restrict, infringe upon, or impose conditions on an individual’s rights to bodily autonomy, to make the individual’s own health care decisions, and to be free to accept or refuse any health or medical intervention, testing, treatment, or vaccine based on the individual’s own religious, conscientious, or personal beliefs.
(2) The prohibitions set forth in subdivision (1) of this subsection include not denying, restricting, infringing upon, or imposing conditions on an individual’s employment, travel, education, child care, religion, benefits, insurance, or participation in sports, camps, or other recreation based in whole or in part on the exercise of an individual’s right to refuse any medical intervention, testing, treatment, or vaccine based on the individual’s own religious, conscientious, or personal beliefs.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of statute or rule to the contrary, including a statute or rule addressing an outbreak, epidemic, or potential outbreak or epidemic of a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and notwithstanding any statute, rule, order, or directive that may be adopted or promulgated in response to an emergency, including a national security emergency, statewide emergency, local emergency, public health emergency, or peacetime emergency, each individual shall retain the rights to bodily autonomy, to make the individual’s own health care decisions, and to be free to accept or refuse any health or medical intervention, testing, treatment, or vaccine based on the individual’s own religious, conscientious, or personal beliefs.
§ 853. ENFORCEMENT
Any individual who suffers damage, loss, or injury as a result of any conduct prohibited by section 852 of this chapter may bring an action in Superior Court against the individual or entity that engaged in the conduct for injunctive relief, compensatory and punitive damages, costs and reasonable attorney’s fees, and other appropriate relief.
Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE
This act shall take effect on passage.
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