Bill Text: IL HR0613 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to continue taking appropriate action to facilitate equitable access to adolescent and adult vaccinations, including establishing appropriate programs and initiatives to raise public awareness on the importance of adolescent and adult vaccinations. Urges the IDPH to continue working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in-state healthcare providers, and patients to implement an effective and actionable state immunization strategy that includes adult immunizations. Urges the IDPH to continue increasing community resilience to communicable and other emerging disease threats. Urges the IDPH to continue determining goals on which to center the immunization plan. Urges the IDPH to continue exploring federal funding opportunities and partnerships to support vaccine awareness and access programs aligned with the goals established in the state immunization strategy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-23 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr [HR0613 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0613-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, Adult vaccines reduce the burden of widespread | ||||||
3 | disease and enable individuals to live longer, healthier, and | ||||||
4 | more productive lives; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Despite vaccine recommendations made by the | ||||||
6 | United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | ||||||
7 | and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), | ||||||
8 | many adults do not receive all recommended vaccines; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Vaccine-preventable diseases cause long-term | ||||||
10 | illness, hospitalization, and death; the CDC estimates that, | ||||||
11 | since 2010, influenza-related hospitalizations in the U.S. | ||||||
12 | have ranged from 140,000 to 710,000 and influenza-related | ||||||
13 | deaths have ranged from 12,000 to 56,000; further, roughly | ||||||
14 | 150,000 people are hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia, | ||||||
15 | and 5 to 7% of those individuals die each year; for individuals | ||||||
16 | 65 years of age and older, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) | ||||||
17 | can lead to as many as 160,000 hospitalizations and 10,000 | ||||||
18 | deaths in the U.S. each year; an estimated 880,000 to 1.89 | ||||||
19 | million people in the U.S. have chronic hepatitis B, which can | ||||||
20 | cause serious health problems, including liver damage, | ||||||
21 | cirrhosis, liver cancer, and death; finally, human | ||||||
22 | papillomavirus (HPV) causes over 37,000 cancers in women and | ||||||
23 | men each year, and approximately 4,000 women die each year |
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1 | from cervical cancer; and
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2 | WHEREAS, The U.S. annually spends more than $21 billion | ||||||
3 | treating adults 50 years of age and older for influenza and | ||||||
4 | pneumococcal disease, both of which are vaccine-preventable; | ||||||
5 | and
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6 | WHEREAS, Influenza, like many vaccine-preventable | ||||||
7 | diseases, also contributes to workplace productivity loss; a | ||||||
8 | typical, full-time employee may lose up to 3.5 workdays due to | ||||||
9 | absenteeism and presenteeism from an influenza infection; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Despite the burden and consequences of | ||||||
11 | vaccine-preventable diseases, adult vaccination rates remain | ||||||
12 | low in the U.S. and far below national targets; in 2021, | ||||||
13 | pneumococcal vaccine coverage among adults 65 years of age and | ||||||
14 | older was 65.8%; similar trends were seen with hepatitis B | ||||||
15 | vaccination coverage, with only 34.2% of adults 19 years of | ||||||
16 | age and older receiving a hepatitis B vaccine; and
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17 | WHEREAS, As a result of low vaccination rates, adults | ||||||
18 | experience higher rates of morbidity and mortality from | ||||||
19 | vaccine-preventable diseases; and
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20 | WHEREAS, Furthermore, racial and ethnic minority | ||||||
21 | populations report consistently lower rates of immunization |
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1 | than white individuals; for example, in the U.S., the shingles | ||||||
2 | vaccination rate was 35.5% among non-Hispanic white adults and | ||||||
3 | 19.9% among non-Hispanic Black/African American adults; | ||||||
4 | additionally, less than 43% of Black/African American, | ||||||
5 | Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native adults received an | ||||||
6 | influenza vaccine for the 2021-2022 season compared to 54% of | ||||||
7 | white adults; this is attributable in part to decreased | ||||||
8 | vaccine awareness and suboptimal knowledge of vaccination | ||||||
9 | schedules; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Reported adult vaccination rates are often lower | ||||||
11 | in rural communities than in urban settings; for example, the | ||||||
12 | CDC reports rural counties had first-dose COVID-19 vaccination | ||||||
13 | coverage of 58.5% compared to 75.4% in urban counties between | ||||||
14 | December 2020 and January 2022; and
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15 | WHEREAS, Providing targeted education and awareness of | ||||||
16 | adult vaccinations among racial and ethnic minority | ||||||
17 | populations in the State through evidence-based strategies can | ||||||
18 | increase uptake; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Supporting access to vaccines is a necessary | ||||||
20 | public health tool that will protect individuals from | ||||||
21 | vaccine-preventable diseases; and
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22 | WHEREAS, Provisions of the federal Inflation Reduction Act |
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1 | expanded access to vaccine coverage without cost-sharing; the | ||||||
2 | law removed cost-sharing for vaccines covered under Medicare | ||||||
3 | Part D in January 2023 and mandated coverage for all | ||||||
4 | ACIP-recommended vaccines administered to adults covered by | ||||||
5 | traditional Medicaid in October 2023; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Developing a state immunization strategy focused | ||||||
7 | on adults may assist in reducing the impact of disruptions to | ||||||
8 | adult routine vaccines, decreasing preventable healthcare | ||||||
9 | utilization and burden, reducing absenteeism due to illness, | ||||||
10 | and helping protect populations from vaccine-preventable | ||||||
11 | diseases; therefore, be it
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12 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
13 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
14 | we urge the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to | ||||||
15 | continue taking appropriate action to facilitate equitable | ||||||
16 | access to adolescent and adult vaccinations, including | ||||||
17 | establishing appropriate programs and initiatives to raise | ||||||
18 | public awareness on the importance of adolescent and adult | ||||||
19 | vaccinations; and be it further
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20 | RESOLVED, That we urge the IDPH to continue working with | ||||||
21 | the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in-state healthcare | ||||||
22 | providers, and patients to implement an effective and | ||||||
23 | actionable state immunization strategy that includes adult |
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1 | immunizations, which will align stakeholders on shared | ||||||
2 | objectives and efforts to facilitate broad vaccine | ||||||
3 | availability and access and provide greater clarity to | ||||||
4 | patients and providers on age-appropriate options; and be it | ||||||
5 | further
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6 | RESOLVED, That we urge the IDPH to continue increasing | ||||||
7 | community resilience to communicable and other emerging | ||||||
8 | disease threats; and be it further
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9 | RESOLVED, That we urge the IDPH to continue determining | ||||||
10 | goals on which to center the immunization plan, and these | ||||||
11 | goals may include but are not limited to strengthening adult | ||||||
12 | and adolescent immunization infrastructure, improving access, | ||||||
13 | assessing vaccine administration fees, increasing community | ||||||
14 | demand, lowering vaccine hesitancy, and promoting health | ||||||
15 | equity initiatives to improve uptake; and be it further
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16 | RESOLVED, That we urge the IDPH to continue exploring | ||||||
17 | federal funding opportunities and partnerships to support | ||||||
18 | vaccine awareness and access programs aligned with the goals | ||||||
19 | established in the state immunization strategy; and be it | ||||||
20 | further
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21 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
22 | delivered to the Director of the Illinois Department of Public |
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