{"id":105476,"date":"2016-04-26T22:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T04:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-vaccine-database-proposal-falls\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T22:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T04:31:43","slug":"colorado-vaccine-database-proposal-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-vaccine-database-proposal-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado vaccine database proposal falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Colorado House of Representatives backed off a proposed database to track the record of children\u2019s immunizations on Monday. The legislative maneuver means the database proposal is dead for the year.<\/span>Damian Dovarganes\/Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

DENVER \u2013 Mandatory vaccination opponents have helped defeat a Colorado proposal to start a database tracking children who haven\u2019t been immunized.<\/p>\n

The state House backed off the proposed database Monday, when it was scheduled for a vote. The legislative maneuver means the database proposal is dead for the year.<\/p>\n

Democratic sponsors had enough support to steer the database through the House. But the proposal faced certain death in the GOP Senate, where some Republicans complain the state Health Department has already overreached by contacting parents about their children\u2019s immunizations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public health of Colorado was not enough to convince opponents of the bill,\u201d said Rep. Dan Pabon, a Denver Democrat who proposed the database. \u201cThe politics around the \u2018I word,\u2019 or immunizations, just got to be too intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

The proposal opened an emotional debate about Colorado\u2019s low vaccination rates. Colorado is one of 20 states that allow parents to claim any kind of personal opposition to required immunizations, and vaccine rates are among the nation\u2019s lowest.<\/p>\n

Colorado passed a law two years ago to have schools report vaccination rates. But for 1 in 5 Colorado kindergartners, there was no immunization information on record for the 2014-15 school year.<\/p>\n

The failure of the vaccine database bill makes Colorado one of only three states with no central tracking of childhood immunizations, Pabon said.<\/p>\n

Republicans say they don\u2019t oppose vaccines, but they found the database proposal intrusive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to do with what authority the state has over parents\u201d who object to vaccines, said Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud. \u201cA lot of parents don\u2019t disagree necessarily with all vaccinations. But they do disagree with the volume and schedule of vaccinations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state Health Department has taken down a website that some parents said improperly sought vaccination exemption information. Some accused the agency of trying to set up a database without legislative clearance, something the agency insisted wasn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

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On the Net<\/h4>\n

House Bill 1164: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1YCG5UV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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