Bill Text: IL HR0762 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the Congress of the United States to pass, and the President to sign, legislation removing 42 U.S.C. 300aa-22(b)(1) from law and allowing design defect claims against vaccine manufacturers by individuals who have experienced adverse side effects caused by vaccines.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0762 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0762-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The U.S. Congress passed into law the National | ||||||
| 3 | Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986,
which states that no | ||||||
| 4 | "vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for | ||||||
| 5 | damages arising
from a vaccine-related injury or death | ||||||
| 6 | associated with the administration of a vaccine after
October | ||||||
| 7 | 1, 1988, if the injury or death resulted from side effects that | ||||||
| 8 | were unavoidable even
though the vaccine was properly prepared | ||||||
| 9 | and was accompanied by proper directions and
warnings"; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, In 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled in | ||||||
| 11 | Bruesewitz v. Wyeth that the
"National Childhood Vaccine Injury | ||||||
| 12 | Act pre-empts all design-defect claims against vaccine
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| 13 | manufacturers brought by plaintiffs who seek compensation for | ||||||
| 14 | injury or death caused by
vaccine side effects"; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Our individual human rights should outweigh the | ||||||
| 16 | profits of pharmaceutical
companies, and individuals should | ||||||
| 17 | have the ability to hold vaccine manufacturers liable for
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| 18 | design defects that result in adverse side effects from | ||||||
| 19 | vaccines; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, The European Union has found a way to allow | ||||||
| 21 | evidence-based lawsuits to hold
vaccine manufacturers liable | ||||||
| 22 | without destabilizing the European health care system; | ||||||
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| 1 | therefore, be it
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| 2 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 3 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 4 | we urge the
Congress of the United States to pass, and the | ||||||
| 5 | President to sign, legislation removing 42 U.S.C.
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| 6 | 300aa-22(b)(1) from law and allowing design defect claims | ||||||
| 7 | against vaccine manufacturers by
individuals who have | ||||||
| 8 | experienced adverse side effects caused by vaccines; and be it | ||||||
| 9 | further
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| 10 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 11 | delivered to the President of the United States, the U.S. | ||||||
| 12 | Senate Majority Leader, the U.S. Speaker of the House of | ||||||
| 13 | Representatives, each member of
the Illinois Congressional | ||||||
| 14 | Delegation, and the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
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| 15 | Services.
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