Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans

This executive order establishes "Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations" organizing childhood immunizations into three categories (recommended for all children, recommended for high-risk groups, and based on shared clinical decision-making) and directs all agencies to advance them. It directs the Secretary of HHS, through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans to the President within 90 days on offering single-disease vaccines starting with MMR, adjusting the federal vaccine schedule, developing alternative adjuvants, and improving safety monitoring. It also directs the Attorney General to further legal actions challenging state laws that conflict with obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection, and directs the Departments of Justice, Education, and HHS to ensure their contractors and grantees, including states and localities, provide religious and medical exemptions from immunization requirements where required by federal law.

Contractors and grantees of the Departments of Justice, Education, and HHS, including states and localities to Comply with constitutional and federal statutory obligations related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection, including obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirements, as a condition of contracts and grants from the Departments of Justice, Education, and HHS (unclear).

No known legal challenges.