Barage of legislative gunfire to block Perry's exec order

By jill stanek on February 6, 2007 9:10 AM | 1 Comment

Kaiser News reports today Texan legislative guns blazed yesterday in response to Gov. Perry's Feb 2. quick-draw executive order forcing adolescent girls to receive the HPV vaccine:

State Sen. Jane Nelson (R) asked Perry to reverse the order and said she would ask Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) about the mandate's legality and whether the Legislature has any recourse (Houston Chronicle, 2/6). Nelson also said that the Legislature should hear testimony from doctors, scientists and patients before mandating the vaccine. "This is not an emergency," Nelson said, adding, "It needs to be discussed and debated".

Sen. Glenn Hegar (R) said he would introduce a bill to reverse the mandate (Houston Chronicle, 2/6).

Reps. Dennis Bonnen (R) and Charlie Howard (R) filed a bill (HB 1098) that would prohibit requiring students to receive an HPV vaccination to attend public schools (Dallas Morning News, 2/5).

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lifeethics | February 6, 2007 11:30 PM

The Laws of Texas give the Governor, as the head of the Executive Branch, the power to regulate the Medical Board and the Department of State Health Services. The Legislature has passed law as recently as 2003 that allows the Department and Board to add vaccines as they deem them necessary.

The Governor's language is strong in promoting parental right to opt out and orders the Department to make the opt out provision available on the Internet. Currently, parents have to make a request in writing for an affadavit, which has to be notarized and then delivered to the Department - eventually the Department mails the exemption to the parent. (Can you imagine? There's no way we could have ever gotten the parental consent forms this complicated or the process so convoluted.) The Governor's language would make the process easier.

The Legislators shouldn't cry that the Governor is trying to bypass them, when he is practicing his legal function as head of the Executive Branch.

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