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House Bill 4552 addresses vaccine exemptions for school attendance by curtailing the power of unelected health officials.
What the bill does:
- Prevents local health officers from excluding children from school over vaccination status—unless there’s an official epidemic.
- Protects existing medical, religious and philosophical vaccine exemption options, guaranteeing that parents won’t be forced to use special forms or face added hurdles from state or local health departments.
- Repeals an overly broad administrative rule (R 325.175) that allowed health departments to impose stricter vaccine policies without legislative oversight.
- Requires that any exemption guidance include both the benefits and risks of immunization.
HB 4552 promotes transparency and prevents state bureaucracies from bypassing the legislative process.
TAKE ACTION
- Contact your Michigan State Representative and urge them to SUPPORT HB 4552.
Find your representative: https://www.house.mi.gov
SAMPLE SCRIPT:
“Hello, my name is ___, and I’m a Michigan resident. I’m calling to support HB 4552, which prevents local health officers from excluding children from school due to vaccination status—unless there’s an official epidemic.
It maintains the current vaccine exemption options, removes an overly broad administrative rule, and ensures parents receive information on vaccine risks.
Please vote YES on HB 4552 to help prevent the MDHHS and local health departments from implementing extra requirements through their own rules when no basis exists in statute.
Thank you for your kind consideration of this protective bill.”
TALKING POINTS
- This bill helps stop backdoor mandates. It ensures that neither the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) nor local health departments can create new school vaccine rules outside the legislative process.
- Discrimination based on vaccine status is never acceptable. HB 4552 includes protections for students, preventing schools and government officials from targeting or penalizing families based solely on vaccination status when no public health emergency exists.
- Parental rights must be protected. HB 4552 affirms that exemption rights cannot be restricted or buried in red tape by bureaucrats. Medical decisions for children should be in the hands of parents, not state agencies.
- We must stop this system from getting worse. While no mandate is acceptable, HB 4552 is a step toward rolling back existing government control and protecting families from future expansions of vaccine policy.
- Vaccines are medical procedures that carry a risk of serious injury. Hundreds of thousands have reported an adverse reaction to vaccination to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The U.S. Government has paid out approximately $5.1 billion as of January 2024 to the victims of vaccine injury, per VICP Data Reports. https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vicp-stats-01-01-24.pdf
- No one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Each of us may respond differently as we have different medical histories, genes, epigenetics, and microbiomes.
MORE INFORMATION:
Read the full bill text and status here:
https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-HB-4552
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