The bi-partisan, state-wide effort to mow down Gov. Rick Perry's rash mandate of the HPV vaccine continues to steam-roll forward and cut down all objectors in its path. The Senate committee taking up the Senate's version of the bill to block Perry's mandate passed the bill yesterday.
Next stop: the floor of the Senate.
Next, will Gov. Perry have the nerve to veto it? If so, I expect the House and Senate to override his veto - for the first time in many years.
Read the full article here.
Noteworthy content:
A Senate committee signed off on a bill on Tuesday that would bar state health officials from following Gov. Rick Perry's order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted disease.
And this:
Perry's order outraged lawmakers from both parties and much of his social conservative base, who questioned the vaccine's safety and efficacy and said the mandate intrudes too far into families' lives.
The bill approved by the House would permanently prohibit the state from adding the HPV vaccine to the list of shots required for school attendance. The Senate's version of the ban would expire in 2011 under the bill the committee approved Tuesday.
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