A resolution condemning the extreme anti-vaccine policies of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., strongly opposing the policies of the State of Florida that roll back immunization requirements, and expressing the sense of the Senate that vaccines are critical to protecting public health, eliminating preventable illness and death, and reducing hospitalizations and severity of illness, work best when adopted at a high level within each community, and must be made available to the public.

This Senate resolution is a non-binding statement that condemns what it describes as extreme anti-vaccine policies attributed to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and strongly opposes Florida’s actions to roll back school immunization requirements. It asserts that vaccines are critical to protecting public health, reducing preventable illness and death, and lowering hospitalizations and illness severity. The resolution emphasizes reliance on science, endorses the recommendations of professional medical organizations, and calls for vaccines to be widely accessible and affordable, without politicization of the advisory bodies that guide vaccine policy. The resolution characterizes Kennedy’s actions and Florida’s policy changes as harmful to public health and contrary to bipartisan support for vaccine access. It frames vaccines as safest and most cost-effective disease prevention, and it endorses keeping vaccine access available through various health care and community settings, with a emphasis on high community adoption to protect those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. As a Senate resolution, it expresses the sense of the Senate rather than creating new law.