HB 679 · 2025 · House · Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee
Vaccine mandates require transmission proof
AI-generatedrelative to immunization requirements.
Provides that state childhood immunization requirements cannot mandate a vaccine that has not been shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of a disease.AI-generated
Status
Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · May 1, 2025- ✓Introduced
- ✓House
- ✕Senate
- Governor
- Law
Analysis
This bill provides that no childhood immunization requirement shall require a vaccine that has not been shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of any disease.
From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.
In the bill's words
Quoted verbatim from the bill as introduced. Passages chosen from the operative text.Computed by this site
“Nothing in this section shall require a vaccine that has not been shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of any disease.”
Official record
gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source
Sponsors
- Rep. Robert WherryRChair· Special Committee on COVID Response Efficacy
- Rep. Mike DragoRMajority Whip
- Sen. Keith MurphyRDeputy President Pro Tempore
Also: Rep. Mike BelcherR, Rep. Barbara ComtoisR, Rep. Jim KofaltR, Rep. Yury PolozovR, Rep. Paul TerryR
Public testimony
1,044 signed in online · 274 wrote testimony
20% support80% oppose0% neutral
ForMandates should require proof of preventing transmission
AgainstWeakening mandates risks outbreaks amid the measles resurgence
AI-generatedLeading arguments, summarized by the testimony tool.
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“Please support this bill. We should not mandate any vaccine that doesn't prevent transmission for school attendance. Supposedly the purpose of vaccine mandates is to protect the community. If a vaccine can't prevent transmission, then the benefit is purely personally protective.…”
“Another piece of legislation that we shouldn't need, but do ... Vaccines do not prevent transmission. They never have. Please pass this piece of legislation to ensure that our poorly informed public health and other officials can't use this bogus reasoning in the future.…”
“Wednesday, March 12th, N.H. House Health and Human Services LOB, Room 202-204 ? 1:30 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB679 This bill says that the state of New Hampshire cannot mandate any vaccine that doesn't prevent transmission for school attendance.…”
“We need safe and accessible vaccines so parents have the right to choose.”
“Stop trying to take away potentially life saving vaccines for children! You should include some data in this bill about what you’re trying to stop. Even the Covid vaccine had clinical trials.”
“I absolutely oppose this bill because that is not how vaccinations work. They don't prevent transmission, the goal is to prevent severe illness or death after catching the disease. It can help minimize symptoms, but nothing in the world will stop actual transmission of a disease.…”
Verbatim excerpts of submitted testimony, quoted from the testimony tool.
Read the testimony · as of Aug 12, 2026
Votes
yeanay- Mar 19, 2025HouseCommittee report· regular calendar: Ought to Pass10–8Overall56% yea
- Overall55% yeaParty-line voteRepublicans203–299% yeaDemocrats1–1631% yea
- May 1, 2025SenateCommittee report: Inexpedient to Legislate4–1Overall80% yea
- May 1, 2025SenateVoice voteInexpedient to Legislateadopted
Hearings and debates
- Mar 12, 2025Public hearingHouse Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs5:03:15–5:06:343m 19slocated in the stream transcriptPublic Hearing
- Mar 19, 2025Public hearingHouse Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs1:32:54–1:34:081m 14slocated in the stream transcriptMajority Committee Report: Ought to Pass — roll call; Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Executive Session
- Mar 27, 2025Floor debateHouse floor5:09:49–5:13:113m 22slocated in the stream transcriptOught to Pass — adopted, roll call 204-165
- Apr 9, 2025Public hearingSenate Health and Human Services1:11:27–1:22:1610m 49slocated in the stream transcript==ROOM CHANGE== Hearing
- May 1, 2025Floor debateSenate floorWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Inexpedient to Legislate — adopted, voice vote
Timestamps locate where this bill is taken up in the chamber's YouTube stream.
Legislative history
- Jan 9, 2025HouseIntroduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs HJ 3 P. 22
- Mar 12, 2025HousePublic Hearing: 03/12/2025 01:30 pm LOB 202-204
- Mar 19, 2025HouseExecutive Session: 03/19/2025 09:30 am LOB 201
- Mar 19, 2025HouseMajority : Ought to Pass 03/19/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 17 P. 59
- Mar 19, 2025HouseMinority : Inexpedient to Legislate
- Mar 27, 2025HouseOught to Pass: MA RC 204-165 03/27/2025 HJ 11 P. 55
- Mar 27, 2025SenIntroduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 10
- Apr 9, 2025Sen==ROOM CHANGE== Hearing: 04/09/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:00 am; SC 16
- May 1, 2025Sen: Inexpedient to Legislate, 05/01/2025, Vote 4-1, CC; SC 19
- May 1, 2025SenInexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 05/01/2025; SJ 11
Coverage
No reporting linked yet.
Background reading
Evergreen reading on the policy area — spanning perspectives — not coverage of this specific bill.
KFF — Who sets school vaccine rules, what every state requires, and how exemptions differ.AI-generated
KFF — The recent wave of state changes, with exemption rates at record highs.AI-generated
CDC Public Health Law Program — The federal compilation of state requirements and exemption categories.AI-generated
History of Vaccines (College of Physicians of Philadelphia) — How the childhood schedule is set, and by whom.AI-generated
Documents (PDF)
Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.