Budget Amendment ID: FY2026-S3-439-R1

Redraft EHS 439

Community Health Outreach Pilot

Ms. Rausch and Ms. Creem moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 4516-1000, by adding the following words:- "; provided further, that the department of public health shall implement an infectious disease elevated risk community outreach pilot project; provided further, that a school or early education program that has not achieved herd immunity against 1 or more vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, as determined by the department of public health, or has failed to provide the department of public health with vaccination and exemption rate data for the 2023-2024 academic year shall be designated as an elevated risk program; provided further, that the department shall create a notice to parents and caregivers of children in an elevated risk program stating that the program’s community members are at an elevated risk for the spread of 1 or more vaccine-preventable infectious diseases; provided further, that an elevated risk program shall issue the notice to parents and caregivers in the community not later than 10 days after receipt of the notice from the department; provided further, that the department may require an elevated risk program to organize and invite all parents and caregivers in the community to a presentation to be delivered by the department about immunization safety, immunization efficacy and herd immunity; provided further, that the department shall develop and make available online an informational pamphlet containing medically accurate information about immunization safety and immunization efficacy and information about vaccination cost coverage through the Vaccine Purchase Trust Fund established in section 24N of chapter 111 of the General Laws; provided further, that each elevated risk program shall distribute the informational pamphlet, either electronically or in hard copy, to all parents and caregivers  of children in the elevated risk program".