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Introduced
03/17/2025
03/17/2025
In Committee
05/19/2025
05/19/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
01/12/2026
01/12/2026
Introduced Session
2024-2025 Regular Session
Bill Summary
This resolution urges the citizens of the State of New Jersey to become vaccinated. Once declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, measles has once again resurfaced in the country. In 2024, there were a total of 285 reported cases of measles in the United States. For 2025, the number of reported cases has reached 222 in the first three months alone and new cases continue to be reported every day. New Jersey has had three reported cases in 2025. Declining vaccination rates across the country and in New Jersey have played a role in these outbreaks. Ninety-four percent of the cases reported in 2025 were among children and adults who were not vaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown. In 2024, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) declared that only 93 percent of kindergarteners had received their measles vaccination, falling two percent below the threshold needed for community immunity to prevent widespread transmission of the disease. The rate of New Jersey kindergarteners meeting all vaccination requirements has decreased by 3.6 percent from the 2013-2014 school year to the 2023-2024 school year and the percentage of first-graders in New Jersey meeting all vaccination requirements experienced the biggest decrease within the same time period, falling by 7.5 percent.
AI Summary
This resolution urges New Jersey citizens to become vaccinated in response to a resurgence of measles across the United States. The resolution highlights that measles, once eliminated in 2000, has reemerged with 222 cases reported in the first three months of 2025 and 285 cases in 2024, with 94 percent of those cases occurring in unvaccinated individuals. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that only 93 percent of kindergarteners nationwide have received the measles vaccine, falling short of the 95 percent threshold needed for community immunity. In New Jersey specifically, vaccination rates have declined, with first-grade immunization requirements dropping by 7.5 percent from the 2013-2014 to 2023-2024 school years. The resolution calls on the New Jersey Department of Health to increase awareness about the measles outbreak by developing and distributing informational resources, and it emphasizes the importance of vaccination not only for individual protection but also to safeguard vulnerable populations such as the elderly, newborns, and immunocompromised individuals through community immunity.
Committee Categories
Health and Social Services
Sponsors (4)
Last Action
Reported from Senate Committee, 2nd Reading (on 05/19/2025)
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| Document Type | Source Location |
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| State Bill Page | https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2024/SR127 |
| Analysis - Statement SHH 5/19/25 | https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2024/SR/127_S1.PDF |
| BillText | https://pub.njleg.gov/Bills/2024/SR/127_I1.HTM |
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