Lujan Grisham has two weeks to decide on bill allowing state to set its own vaccine guidelines

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has two weeks to sign a bill into law that would allow state health officials to use other authorities besides the federal government when setting vaccine guidelines for New Mexicans.

Senate Bill 3 , which passed in the Legislature last week, grants the state of New Mexico the ability to use vaccination recommendations from the state's Department of Health and from physician groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics. The current guidelines are set by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffed by appointees of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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