Thu Dec 2, 2021 – 5:59 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Tuesday to expand government vaccination databases with support from dozens of Republican congressmen.
In a 294-130 vote Tuesday night, the House approved the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, or HR 550, which provides $400 million for “immunization system data modernization and expansion,” Breitbart reported.
HR 550 specifically taps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to strengthen data systems used to collect information on Americans’ vaccination history.
The bill directs the CDC to “expand, enhance, and improve immunization information systems that are administered by health departments or other agencies … and used by health care providers.”
An “immunization information system” is defined in the bill as “a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database.”
Among other things, HR 550 authorizes funding for “supporting real-time immunization record data exchange and reporting” and “improving secure data collection, transmission, bidirectional exchange, maintenance, and analysis of immunization information.”
The bill’s author, Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire, said in a statement Tuesday
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