that affected churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious assemblies. Please ask your representatives to support this bill as amended with emphasis.

and ask them to pass identical N.H. House Freedom Caucus emergency powers reform language in both bills so that we are ensured these changes will become law. If we can get this done this year, our freedom and the balance of powers in state government will be in a far more stable position.

Senate: Bob Giuda, Sharon Carson, Suzanne Prentiss
House: Carol McGuire, Terry Roy, Tony Lekas, Jeffrey Goley

This bill will start reigning in the power of the DHHS commissioner during a state of emergency. The Commissioner should not have the power to restrict the practice and prescribing of a licensed practitioner.

Currently, the information is added automatically by medical offices unless the patient takes some as yet unspecified action to remove his or her data. Unfortunately, this important bill did not get a favorable report out of the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee. We need people to contact their reps to support this bill on the floor.

Not clear whose responsibility to provide a picture. Each pet already has an ID number associated with rabies vaccination. Not needed. Notes courtesy of Laura Condon NH Director of Advocacy for NVIC

• DHHS and university system of NH shall maintain a COVID-19 dashboard website/information clearinghouse
tracks schools and local communities, nursing homes, prisons, and congregate living settings
track vaccination metrics by age, race, town, and eligibility
• allows for cross-referencing of geographic location, age, race, and eligibility
• updated daily and available to the public 24-hours a day, 7 days a week
• establishes a Legislative Committee to study health disparities
• committee will be four representatives (2 minority) and two senators (1 minority)
• committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2021
• effective upon its passage

This bill has an amendment (2021-0032h) that will more than double the cost of the original bill, calls for a report of a fake cost analysis, prohibits doctors and pharmacists from opting out of this government program, and calls for an unworkable effective date.

This bill will not provide vaccines for you if you are age 65 or older, and covered by Medicare. Your doctor and pharmacist will still have to purchase their own vaccines for you.

This bill will not provide vaccines to the poor, on Medicaid. Your doctor and pharmacist will still have to purchase their own vaccines for you.

This bill will not provide vaccines for you if you are uninsured. Your doctor and pharmacists will still have to purchase their own vaccine inventory for you.

Yet this bill will add a minimum of $848,000 the first year to fund 9 new DHHS staff and to pay for the State Vaccine Registry. This amount can be increased at any time by DHHS.

The board of the NH Vaccine Association, of which DHHS has 3 seats, may vote itself any amount of “start up money for the next two years” above and beyond the $848,000.

Doctors and pharmacists would be required to maintain two separate inventories of vaccines with separate refrigerators and freezers to keep separate the “free” supply of vaccines from DHHS from the vaccines they have purchased themselves. There is no mechanism or program to maintain or monitor separate inventories and to protect the “free” supply from theft and misuse in the vast number of adults not covered by this program.

This bill would create abuse of the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) contract, a contract intended only for the purchase of vaccines for needy children, based on Section 1928 of the federal Social Security Act that limits this vaccine purchase program to pediatric vaccines only. This violation of federal law would put the NH child vaccine program in jeopardy.

This bill would strip you of your right to legal and financial recourse that you are currently entited to for disability, blindness, and death that may result from a dangerous or defective vaccine.

This bill is likely to increase the costs of vaccines to doctors and pharmacists as it will hurt their ability to maintain volume discount purchase programs. No one is currently paying market prices for vaccine inventory.

Doctors and pharmacists may be less likely to provide vaccines for those age 65 and older when existing discounts are lost. As a result, less people will be vaccinated.

While good intentioned, this bill is truly a solution in search of a problem as private industry (doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists) are already purchasing vaccines cost effectively without adding over a million dollars in administrative costs every year and vaccines are readily available for adults at the doctors, at the hospital, at clinics, at corner drug stores, and even at the grocery store!

This bill was not a request of DHHS or the NH Vaccine Association. In this time of the COVID pandemic with DHHS staff working around the clock for months, it is unreasonable and unfair to even ask them to take on a program of this type at this time.

Talking points from Laura Condon NH Director of Advocacy for NVIC

It would protect the individual right to bodily autonomy by
creating a new protected class of individuals under state civil rights law who could not be discriminated against by any public or private establishment in the state. That means you could not be denied access to a store, workplace, school, or government office because you refuse to take a vaccine, a Covid-19 test or wear a medical device, such as a mask. The bill is currently opposed by the committee, but we want the bill to become law. Please ask your representatives to oppose the committee's recommendation and support an OTP of HB506.

This would increase the quarantine from 48 hours to at least 7 days in a licensed facility separated from other animals. This is extreme and unnecessary stress on rescue pets already suffering from stress. This would be a deterrent to pet adoption for furry friends who need a loving home. Notes from: Laura Condon NH Director of Advocacy for NVIC