MN HF2825

Urges President and Congress to remove United States Code title 42, section 300aa-22(b)(1), which shields vaccine manufacturers from civil liability for vaccine-related injuries and deaths with unavoidable side effects.

References the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and the 2011 Supreme Court ruling in Brueswitz v. Wyeth that preempts design defect claims against vaccine manufacturers.

Asserts that individual human rights should outweigh pharmaceutical company profits and that individuals should be able to hold vaccine manufacturers liable for design defects causing adverse side effects.

Cites the European Union as an example of allowing evidence-based lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers without destabilizing the health care system.

Directs Minnesota's Secretary of State to send copies of this memorial to the President, Congress members, U.S. Senate leadership, the U.S. House leadership, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.