In 2023, more vaccine related state legislation that NVIC supported has passed into law than in any other year. The COVID-19 pandemic provided an historic opportunity to inspire and encourage active citizen involvement in order to educate state legislators about the urgent need to protect the human and legal right to exercise voluntary, informed consent to vaccination.

The impact of change from our 14 years of grassroots organizing and focused public education efforts is clear. This year’s NVIC’s 2023 Annual Report on U.S. State Vaccine Legislation provides evidence the tide has turned to support our 41-year mission to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and to secure vaccine informed consent protections in U.S. public health policies and laws.