Keep calling and emailing - Vote No on Committee Substitute for SB460
Posted 9 days ago
ALERT
SB460 is back on the House of Delegates’ Committee on Health and Human Resources agenda for markup and passage tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 3pm. If you are available to attend the meeting, please help us pack the committee room. If you are a healthcare professional with a white coat, please wear it.
CALL TO ACTION: Please continue to call and email all members of the House of Delegates’ Committee on Health and Human Resources from now until Tuesday afternoon and ask them to Vote NO ON SB460. This is now an all-hands-on deck situation. Even if you have already called and emailed, please call and email again Tuesday March 18, before 3pm.
House Committee on Health and Human Resources - Agenda
03/18/2025, 3:00 P.M.
Location: 215.E
I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Approval of Minutes
IV. Committee Hearing:
HB 2493 - Creating the Sound Science in Regulations Act (Rohrbach)
HB 3343 - Relating to drugs and adding a provision relating to the scheduling of crystalline polymorph psilocybin approved by the Food and Drug Administration (Worrell)
HB 2410 - Safeguard the Right-To-Try Cutting-Edge Medicine Act (2nd REF JUD) (Hornby)
HB 3344 - Relating to the establishment of a grant program to fund the United States Food and Drug Administration’s drug development trials with ibogaine (Worrell)
HB 2378 - Prohibit needle exchanges from providing services in West Virginia (2nd REF JUD) (Chiarelli)
V. Mark up: Com Sub for SB 460 - Relating to vaccine requirements.
If the delegate from your district is not on the House Health Committee, please reach out directly to them in addition to all House Health & Human Resources Committee members. (Contact information for all delegates is located here).
Click HERE to download 2025 House Health Committee Members
The following is a sample message that can be used for phone calls:
“My name is __________(If applicable… I am a constituent of yours or As a resident of _____ county …) and I am calling to ask you to Vote NO on Committee Substitute 460.”
The following is sample text that can be used in an email:
Contact information for House of Delegates’ Committee on Health and Human Resources members is located here (and attached to this email): https://www.wvlegislature.gov/committees/house/HouseCommittee.cfm?Chart=hhr
The following is a sample message that can be used for phone calls:
“My name is __________(If applicable… I am a constituent of yours or As a resident of _____ county or As a parent of children in the WV school system/in a local childcare facility …) and I am calling to ask you to Vote NO on Senate Bill 460.”
The following is sample text that can be used in an email:
Subject: Vote NO on SB460 (Be sure to state this in your subject line in case they do not open the email.)
“Dear Honorable Delegate (insert legislator’s last name),
(If applicable… As a constituent of yours or As a parent of ____children in public/private school/childcare facility …) I am emailing to ask you to vote NO on Senate Bill 460.
If passed, Senate Bill 460 will move West Virginia from having one of the most effective school and childcare immunization requirements in the nation to having one of the weakest. It will lead to reductions in immunization rates in West Virginia and put our children and communities at risk for outbreaks of preventable diseases.
This bill will open the door to the return of these diseases to our communities, putting children, particularly those who are most vulnerable, at risk. We ask that you do not jeopardize the health and safety of our children and communities by weakening West Virginia’s childcare and school immunization requirements.
We are proud that West Virginia has long been a leader in protecting our kids and communities from unnecessary disease. We do not want to change this.
We ask that you vote NO on SB460.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Thank you for your help!
Julie
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