Title: VIP Act of 2019
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Vaccination Information and Promotion Act of 2019 or the VIP Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a program to improve the national rate of childhood vaccinations, including a public-awareness campaign and a grant program that supports vaccine education.
Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must study and report on changes in public attitudes toward childhood vaccinations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3058 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3058

  To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a 
program to address the health crisis of insufficient vaccinations, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 3, 2019

  Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself, Ms. Norton, Ms. Moore, Ms. Sewell of 
Alabama, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of 
 New York, Mr. Payne, and Mrs. McBath) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a 
program to address the health crisis of insufficient vaccinations, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Vaccination Information and 
Promotion Act of 2019'' or the ``VIP Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. ADDRESSING THE HEALTH CRISIS OF INSUFFICIENT VACCINATIONS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with 
the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall 
develop and implement a program to reverse the decline in the rate of 
childhood vaccinations, including by--
            (1) conducting a national effort to increase public 
        awareness of and knowledge about the benefits of childhood 
        vaccinations;
            (2) supporting the development of a broad range of 
        communication tools to inform the public on the importance of 
        vaccinations;
            (3) acting through the Director of the National Institutes 
        of Health, making more readily available on federally hosted 
        social media specific information from the scientific and 
        medical community on the importance of vaccinations to the 
        health and well-being of infants, children, young adults, 
        adults, and the elderly; and
            (4) awarding grants and other financial assistance to 
        public and private educational institutions, and non-
        governmental (including nonprofit) and other appropriate 
        entities that serve children, students, and the elderly, to 
        implement vaccination education programs.

SEC. 3. GAO STUDY.

    The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct, and 
submit to the Congress a report on the results of, a study on the 
change over time in public attitudes toward childhood vaccinations and 
the reasons underlying such changes.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2025.
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