What other provisions of the Homeland Security Act are troubling?
Section 304 of the bill removed from the states their historic control over public health laws, including vaccination laws, and handed it over to federal health officials. This section allows the Secretary of DHHS to issue a “declaration” after concluding that “an actual or potential bioterrorist incident” or “other potential public health emergency” warrants the administration of “a substance or substances” to “individuals during the effective period of the declaration.” The law provides for no exemptions to vaccination or medication and is expected to override state public health and vaccine laws which currently provide medical and/or religious exemptions to vaccination for school entry. This federal law also does not preclude the use of the U.S. military to enforce the administration of vaccines or other “substances” to individuals as ordered by the Secretary of DHHS. The Homeland Security Bill also eroded laws preventing the federal government from conducting the people’s business
