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  • How to Submit an Immunization Exemption in Idaho

    Idaho Parents have a right to OPT their children out of some (or all) the state-mandated vaccines for daycare and school. There are 3 exemptions for the state medical, religious and ‘other’. Many schools will not disclose this fact, some schools will demand a form signed and completed by parents. This is NOT required by the statute. A signed parental statement of objection is all that is necessary for a parent to provide the school in order to invoke the right of vaccine exemption.

    No shots, no school is simply not true! 

    Parent Signed Statement of Exemption from Vaccine Mandate

    This is an example of text used by a parent submitting an vaccine exemption statement.

    I/We, _________________, pursuant to Idaho Code 39-4802 (2) and IDAPA 16.02.15.110 I/we submit this signed statement to ______________ school officials objecting to immunizations on religious OR other grounds.

    *Keep in mind you don’t have to clarify whether the exemption is for religious or other reasons. Any extra information they ask from you is used for marketing, tracking with the ultimate goal of removing the liability-free vaccine exemptions.

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    Idaho statute 39–4802(2) permits a parent/guardian:

    1. The right to choose whether to vaccinate their child.
    2. The right to opt-out without explanation of objection. This form, created by the Health Department is NOT REQUIRED by Idaho statute. Its requirement contradicts the statute which says clearly,

    “Any minor child whose parent or guardian has submitted a signed statement to school officials stating their objections on religious or other grounds shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.” 

    After 3 years of persistence on the part of Health Freedom Idaho the form has been adjusted and Instructions to Parents regarding vaccine exemptions published by the Health and Welfare Department reflect this accurately. < See the new administrative rules for schools and daycares > 

    Health Freedom Idaho is resolved in stopping the deliberate attempt of the schools to violate parental authority to make health care choices and to protect the privacy of the medical information for their children. If you are having problem with schools who are not following law please contact us iamexempt@healthfreedomidaho.com 

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    HOTSPOTS! Vaccine exemptions putting the state at risk? Or is it simply propaganda to take away your parental authority?

  • IDAHO 2018 School Enrollment: No Shots Mandated. No Form Necessary.

    As you begin to prepare for the new school year, remember that #parentscalltheshots. Contrary to the health and welfare generated school materials presented to parents at registration children CAN enroll in school without vaccines. Idaho has three vaccine exemptions religious, medical or philosophical. Idaho rules changed this year to line up with the statute a HUGE WIN for health freedom. Schools must accept a parent signed statement to invoke religious or philosophical exemptions. We repeat! The “immunization” exemption form is NOT REQUIRED! You can enroll your child in school as ‘exempt’ from the required school vaccines with a parental signed statement per Idaho statue 39-4802 -2.  

    Idaho Statute 39-4802(2) permits a parent/guardian:
     1. The right to choose whether to vaccinate their child
     2. The right to choose to participate or decline participation in the state vaccine registry system (IRIS).
     3. The right to opt out without explanation of objection.  

     OPT OUT OF ANY VACCINE. ANY TIME REASON WITH SIGNED PARENTAL STATEMENT.

    Here’s an example that a parent used for enrolling her elementary student. Printable PDF copy.

    Is you child’s vaccine status in the tri-state database? A child born in Idaho is automatically entered into Iris without written consent. At each doctor’s visit and school enrollment your child’s information is updated for government tracking. Prefer not to have your child’s information stored by the government? OPT OUT.

    What’s wrong with the form? Simply put they are using your child’s private medical information to drive their sales and increase their profit. When you allow your child’s vaccination exemption status to be tracked you are participating in the marketing campaign designed to target your family as ‘public health enemy’ number one.

    Superintendent confirms that vaccine exemption form is NOT REQUIRED for school enrollment

    If vaccines are safe and effective -Why are parents opting out?

    Parents have been empowered with information and truth. Reading vaccine inserts, reviewing ingredient lists and looking at scientific journals that accessible to the public. They are realizing that there are a lack of scientific studies for safety and effectiveness of vaccines. They are waking up to the truth that vaccines permanently damage, injure and cause death to children and adults. Families who suffered intense loss have NOTHING to gain by sharing their stories except the hope that their loss will prevent further destruction of the health and lives of other children.

  • Idaho Vaccine Exemption Form Update for 2017 School Year

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD5WbaWfySU IDHW form falls OUTSIDE the scope of Idaho statute. Schools are bullying parents to either vaccinate or homeschool. Health Freedom Idaho presented a bill 1050 that never got a hearing. Parents are encouraged to email IamExempt@healthfreedomidaho.com if you are being bullied by school officials or the Health Department https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/ This content originally appeared on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD5WbaWfySU).

    There are 2 forms provided by the Department of Health that demand extraneous information not required by law.
    SCHOOL VACCINE EXEMPTION FORM
    CHILDCARE VACCINE EXEMPTION FORM

  • What Happened To The Immunization Exemption Bill?

    Vaccine Exemption Bill 1050 Summary: The Health Department’s mandated immunization exemption form falls outside the scope of law. The law requires a simple statement from parents advising schools they are taking their legally acceptable religious or philosophical exemption to vaccine mandates. The health department form intends to ‘educate’ parents of the risk of childhood diseases and force parents to explain their religious reasons for taking an exemption, neither of these actions are required by statute. The Senate Health Committee agreed with HFI, but politics kept the bill from being heard and voted upon. Its time to bring it to a court of law and have a judge hold the state departments accountable for their actions. If you family faced discrimination when enrolling a child into school or daycare please contact HFI @ IamExemption@healthfreedomidaho.com

     

    Idaho’s vaccine exemption form for school attendance. The Idaho Health Department would like parents to believe that Idaho has a no shots no school policy. However, Idaho statues allows vaccine exemptions for daycare and schools. A parent who chooses to avoid some or all of the 68 CDC recommended vaccines for their school aged child, is legally allowed to enroll the child in school (or daycare). Currently, parents are forced to sign IDHW’s mandatory form that demands parents state that their child is more likely to contract a “vaccine preventable disease with specific complication” and that it is negligent for willfully denying your son/daughter the life-saving protection that vaccines offer” in order to enroll their children into school.


    A parent choosing to take the legal exemption because of religious reasons is required (by the Health Department’s form) to acknowledge ‘card carrying membership’ to a ‘qualified religious organization’ that opposes vaccines and the parent is then required to list their religious objections.

    The Health Department has stepped significantly outside the law that clearly states a parent need only supply a written statement to the schools that they object vaccines on a religious or philosophical ground without need to clarify or excuse their parental choice.

    Leslie Manookian and executive director Miste Karlfeldt spoke with Chairman Lee Heider several times over the summer about this very issue. He whole heartedly agreed that The Health Department has severely overstepped it bounds. He agreed to carry a bill for us to clarify within the statute that a form provided by the Dept of Health and Welfare did not need to be filled out in order to enroll our children in school.

    Health Freedom Idaho went knocking on Legislator’s doors to discuss this situation and we had much support in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. Sen. Fred Martin did his homework by calling the schools. They verified that they were in fact requiring this form and Sen Martin agreed that was outside of the statute.

     Our bill, SB 1050, never had a hearing.

     Dick Armstrong (Director of Health and Welfare) spent much time with the legislators explaining why he requires this form. He stated that he uses it to educate the public and feels that it is his duty to do so. Of course, we believe that is up to the parent to educate themselves while using all of the recourses available to them. The shenanigans that took place to keep this bill from being heard were appalling and included Governor Butch Otter telling Sen Lee Heider not to hear the bill. Sen Heider decided to drawer the bill that he had once promised to carry. The people were neither heard nor represented on this issue. Parents are faced with another year of trying to enroll their children in school without incriminating themselves on the form mandated by the Dept of Health and Welfare. Some have decided to homeschool but not everyone has that option. Many are having to sign this form under duress just to allow their child access to their promised education.

    Health Freedom Idaho is determined to PRESS ON and since the legislature refuses to require departments of the State to comply with Idaho code we will ask the courts to do so! If you have submitted your written statement in compliance with the law to the school and been denied CONTACT Health Freedom Idaho at IamExempt@healthfreedomidaho.com Make sure to document your schools denial of your exemption including date, time, individuals contacted and their response (in writing). We will take this information to the courts and ask a judge to review the Health Department’s practice of requiring a mandatory form that falls outside the scope of statute.

  • #IamExempt

    #IamExempt

    Vaccine Exemptions exist in Idaho. Your child IS NOT REQUIRE to be vaccinated to attend school or daycare. As a parent you have the responsibility to be aware of the law and NOT be bullied by school officials. Law says a statement from the parent is ALL that is required is a statement from parents. Health Department Rules say that statement must appear on their form. NO WHERE in the law does it require parents to provide personal information or admit to causing harm to their child by avoiding vaccinations. 

    There are 2 forms provided by the Department of Health. Legally you are required to make a statement of objection (you do not have to clarify that statement), your child’s name and birthday. Any additional information required by schools or the Health Department is illegal.
    SCHOOL VACCINE EXEMPTION FORM
    CHILDCARE VACCINE EXEMPTION FORM

    IDAHO STATUTES CLEARLY STATE: VACCINES ARE NOT MANDATED FOR DAYCARE or SCHOOLS. LAWS CLEARLY STATE A PARENT’S WRITTEN STATEMENT IS AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTION. The Public Health Department refuses to accept a parents’ written affidavit, which leads many to wonder HOW IS THAT LEGAL?

    Idaho’s Health & Welfare Department created a mandatory immunization form that falls FAR OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF CURRENT STATUTES. The form demands parents to provide additional information, explanations and to sign acknowledgements that are not required in Idaho code. 

    Parents are being forced to sign a form that fall far outside the law and when they refuse to be bullied their children are denied school entrance.

    The Public Health department is getting away with creating their own rules and children are being denied access to daycare and schools. Regardless of your opinion on the efficacy of vaccines, it is unacceptable to allow the Department of Health to mandate a discriminatory form for school enrollment that violates privacy and is potentially self-incriminating.

    Health Freedom Idaho has teamed up with legal experts to help guarantee that Idaho families are not bullied or discriminated by the Health Department and schools when they invoke their legally protected right to vaccine exemptions. If your family is being bullied by school officials or the IDHW Immunization Exemption Form, please contact HFI team members at IamExempt@ hfi.designbyparrish.com/

    Together we will Stop the Bullying and Protect Our Rights.

  • SB1050 Immunization Exemption Form

    SB1050 Immunization Exemption Form

    SUPPORT SB 1050 for Immunization Exemption Form COMPLIANCE
    Media Contact:  Sarah @ exemptions@healthfreedomidaho.com

    IDAHO STATUTES CLEARLY STATE: VACCINES ARE NOT MANDATED FOR DAYCARE or SCHOOLS. LAWS CLEARLY STATE A PARENT’S WRITTEN STATEMENT IS AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTION. The Public Health Department refuses to accept a parents’ written affidavit, which leads many to wonder HOW IS THAT LEGAL?

    Idaho’s Health & Welfare Department created a mandatory immunization form that falls FAR OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF CURRENT STATUTES and is discriminatory to the minority of parents who legally choose to OPT OUT of the full CDC vaccine schedule. Parents are forced to sign IDHW’s mandatory form that demands parents state that they are putting their children at risk. No parent should be forced to sign a form that is self-incriminatory in order to enroll their child into a daycare program or public school.

    The Public Health department is getting away with creating their own rules and children are being denied access to daycare and schools.Regardless of your opinion on the efficacy of vaccines, it is unacceptable to allow the Department of Health to mandate a discriminatory form for school enrollment that violates privacy and is potentially self-incriminating. 

    LAW STATES Idaho Code 39-4802: Any minor child whose parent or guardian has submitted a signed statement to school officials stating their objections on religious or other grounds shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.  Medical exemptions are also allowed.

    Our Current Immunization Exemption Laws Clearly States:

    • Idaho Statutes permit you, as an individual or parent the right to choose whether or not to vaccinate your child.  
    • The statute does not require you to disclose what other grounds your refusal to immunization is. As with any medical decision, the decision to vaccinate is a right of the individual or parent.
    • The State of Idaho, your doctor and public health employees cannot force you or your child to be vaccinated.
    • Your child cannot be excluded from a school or public program because you have exercised your right to not vaccinate.

      Just line out and initial it? NOPE!

      Health Freedom Idaho Surveys show that most schools have denied children access to school when parents have submitted the legally acceptable parental statement of vaccine exemption. There are many schools refusing to accept the form if it has been altered in any way.  

      This discriminatory action on the part of schools (who feel their hands are tied due to Health and Welfare Administrative policy) has caught the attention of Health Freedom Idaho.  While correspondence from the Office of the Attorney General and Legislators have shown that there is in fact a discrepancy in the legal statutes and the scope of the form required by IDHW there has been no challenge to change the current administrative procedures to fall back in line with the law.
      SEE:  Letter 1.    Letter 2. 

      The Law Clearly States Exemptions are Permitted and the legally acceptable process a parent can follow.
      The Administrative Policies of the Health and Welfare Department clearly fall OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF LAW.

      IDHW’s MANDATORY IMMUNIZATION FORM IS DISCRIMINATORY.

      Health Freedom Idaho presented proposed clarifying legislation on February 6 to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. They confirmed that indeed the Idaho Health and Welfare Department’s form falls outside the scope of the law. A new bill Senate Bill #1050 was created and will now work its way through the legislative process.

      Health Freedom Idaho’s summary of the bill’s purpose:

      This clarifies that a parent has the right to enroll their child(ren) in Idaho schools, while maintaining their privacy, their right to medical confidentiality, and the right to opt out of providing IRIS-type vaccination information. Parents’ rights, privacy, confidentiality, and the right to shield oneself from unjust incrimination are paramount to Idahoans and of utmost importance in maintaining liberty. This bill will secure those natural rights.

    • CONTACT THE HEALTH AND WELFARE COMMITTEES Today tell them YES on SB1050 the Health Department should be required to comply with the existing statues allowing parents to opt out of vaccines using a signed statement. 

    IDAHO STATUTES CLEARLY STATE: VACCINES ARE NOT MANDATED FOR DAYCARE or SCHOOLS. LAWS CLEARLY STATE A PARENT’S WRITTEN STATEMENT IS AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTION. The Public Health Department refuses to accept a parents’ written affidavit, which leads many to wonder HOW IS THAT LEGAL?
    Idaho’s Health & Welfare Department created a mandatory immunization form that falls FAR OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF CURRENT STATUTES and is discriminatory to the minority of parents who legally choose to OPT OUT of the full CDC vaccine schedule. Parents are forced to sign IDHW’s mandatory form that demands parents state that they are putting their children at risk. No parent should be forced to sign a form that is self-incriminatory in order to enroll their child into a daycare program or public school.
    The Public Health department is getting away with creating their own rules and children are being denied access to daycare and schools.


    UPDATE!! ACT NOW!


    There is A LOT going on behind the scenes to shut down the bill SB 1050.
    (SB 1050 is the HFI sponsored bill that would keep the Health Departments administrative policy in line with the current statute.)
    It appears we are poking a bear (aka the Health Department) that is use to getting its own way! In order to protect liberty, we need a GIANT response. The Health Department is making every attempt to not only shut down our efforts to keep them ‘in line’ with existing statutes. Tell our elected officials they MUST SUPPORT SB 1050.

    This is easy with the Testify App

    Click here to get Testifi on Google Play.

    Click here to get Testifi in the Apple App Store.

    and send a quick message “Support SB 1050” to:
    1. The Governor
    2. Your District Legislators
    3 The Health and Welfare Committees 
    SB 1050 keeps administrative policy from usurping Idaho law. It allows parents to make an informed choice to opt out of vaccines without discrimination, revealing private medical information and without being entered into a tracking database without consent.
    LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!

    If you don’t have Testifi here’s phone/email list: 
    Governor Butch Otter Office
    Email
    334-2100
    Senate Health Committee which approved the RS to go to print as a bill

    Agenbroad 332-1329 jagenbroad@senate.idaho.gov
    Anthon 332-1346 kanthon@senate.idaho.gov
    Foreman 332-1405 dforeman@senate.idaho.gov
    Harris 332-1429 mharris@senate.idaho.gov
    Heider 332-1347 lheider@senate.idaho.gov
    Jordan 3321412 mjordan@senate.idaho.gov
    Lee 332-1325 alee@senate.idaho.gov
    Martin 332-1358 fmartin@senate.idaho.gov
    Souza 332-1322 msouza@senate.idaho.gov

    House Health Committee

    Blanksma 332-1054 mblanksma@house.idaho.gov
    Chew 332-1049 schew@house.idaho.gov
    Gibbs 332-1042 mgibbs@house.idaho.gov
    Hanks 332-1056 khanks@house.idaho.gov
    Hixon 332-1052 bhixon@house.idaho.gov
    Kingsley 332-1133 mkingsley@house.idaho.gov
    Packer 332-1045 kpacker@house.idaho.gov
    Perry 332-1044 cperry@house.idaho.gov
    Redman 332-1070 eredman@house.idaho.gov
    Rubel 332-1034 irubel@house.idaho.gov
    VanderWoude 332-1037 jvanderwoude@house.idaho.gov
    Wood 332-1074 fwood@house.idaho.gov
    Zollinger 332-1073 bzollinger@house.idaho.gov

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    The purpose of this bill is to clarify Section 39-4802 (2)Idaho Code.

    The current language is as follows:

     

    (2) Any minor child whose parent or guardian has submitted signed statement to school officials stating their objections on religious or other grounds shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.

     

    Original Intent

    The original intent of this section was that an Idaho parent/ guardian may exercise their right to privacy and medical confidentiality by simply submitting a signed statement to school officials in

    order to invoke their right to exemption regarding the state-prescribed vaccination schedule for school enrollment.

     

    Rules Created Mandating Unjust Form

    Rules have since been created requiring a state health department form be mandated. The form that was created for this purpose contains unnecessary, possibly incriminating language that is far outside the scope of this section.

     

    Section 39-4804 Idaho Code is being disregarded in the forced use of the current mandatory exemption form. That section states in part:

     

    NOTIFICATION TO PARENT OR GUARDIAN.

     

    (b) Participation in the immunization registry is voluntary;Because the Idaho IRIS vaccine registry is voluntary, a parent is not required to disclose vaccination status to the state.

     

    Form Forces Parents to Give Up Rights or Child’s Education

    By mandating the current exemption form, which lists individual vaccines and demands confidential medical information, parents are not able to exercise their right to privacy and exemption without facing enrollment denial by schools. Clearly this form does not align with the intentions of the current statutes.

     

    This Bill Will Re-secure Idahoan’s Rights to Privacy, Confidentiality,& Avoidance of Unjust Incrimination

     

    This bill would modify for clarification Section 39-4802 (2)to read:

     

    (2) Any minor child whose parent or guardian has submitted a signed statement to school officials stating their objections on religious or other grounds shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. The signed statement may appear in a letter from the parent or guardian and is not required to be made on a form furnished by the state board of health and welfare, a school, or another entity.

     

    This clarifies that a parent has the right to enroll their child(ren) in Idaho schools, while maintaining their privacy, their right to medical confidentiality, and the right to opt out of providing IRIS-type vaccination information. Parents’ rights, privacy, confidentiality, and the right to shield oneself from unjust incrimination are paramount to Idahoans and of utmost importance in maintaining liberty. This bill will secure those natural rights.