vaccines

The bill drew debate in the Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee because it would expand what is known as the “Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.”

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.

The measure would seem a premptive strike at a growing industry. No food engineered to include vaccines are approved for use in the U.S., but research using mRNA technology goes back several years.