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HB 1519

An Act amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.682, No.284), known as The Insurance Company Law of 1921, in casualty insurance, further providing for mental illness coverage.

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Heather Boyd and 28 co-sponsors

ND DHHS will link and publicly publish quarterly time-series counts of deaths within various post-vaccination intervals for vaccines, by cohort and vaccine type.

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Bill Summary · HB 1519

Summary — HB 1519 (North Dakota): Death and Vaccination Records

Status: Introduced Dec 4, 2024. Second reading — failed to pass (yeas 33, nays 54).
Subject: Creates a new section in chapter 23‑02.1 N.D.C.C. requiring compilation and public summary reporting of combined death and vaccination records.

Main purpose

Require the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to compile linked individual vaccination and death records from the state immunization information system and the electronic death registration system, and to publish quarterly time‑series summary reports for widely‑used vaccines.

Key provisions

  • DHHS must compile and maintain individual death and vaccination records for each vaccine type present in the North Dakota immunization information system.
  • For each individual appearing in both systems DHHS must record: unique identifying number, sex, race, date of birth, date of death, vaccine manufacturer, vaccine type, date of vaccination, dose number, lot number, vaccine provider, and vaccination location.
  • Quarterly reporting: within 30 days after each calendar quarter, DHHS must publish on its website a time‑series summary report for each vaccine type that was administered to more than 20,000 individuals in the state during the previous quarter.
  • Required report structure:
    • Index columns: month & year of administration; sex; birth year; vaccine manufacturer; vaccine type; dose number.
    • Value columns: total vaccines administered for the cohort; total deaths for the cohort occurring within 1, 3, 7, 14, 21, 30 days and additional 30‑day intervals up to 720 days after vaccination. Death totals are cumulative for each interval.
  • Redaction rule: DHHS may not redact low counts in the published reports unless DHHS is expressly notified of a privacy issue regarding the specific metric.

Who is affected

  • DHHS (new data‑collection, linkage, publication duties).
  • Health care providers and vaccine program administrators (data sources).
  • Residents whose vaccination and death data are in state systems (their records would be included in aggregated cohort counts).
  • Researchers, media, and the public (would have access to cohort‑level time‑series death counts linked to vaccination cohorts).

Privacy and policy considerations

  • The bill mandates detailed cohort reporting and prohibits low‑count redactions unless a privacy concern is explicitly raised — raising potential re‑identification and confidentiality concerns for small subgroups despite aggregation.
  • Implementation would require secure data linkage, adequate IT capacity, and possible policy decisions about de‑identification and notification procedures.

Procedural/timeline notes

  • Would add a new section to chapter 23‑02.1 N.D.C.C. and take effect if enacted.
  • As of the last recorded action, the bill failed on second reading (yeas 33, nays 54) and did not become law in this session.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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