The following information is from Children’s Health Defense.
Florida lawmakers are considering Cody’s Law, a first-of-its-kind bill aimed at compensating vaccine injury victims at the state level. If passed, Florida would become the first state to bypass federal vaccine injury programs and provide direct aid through Medicare and Medicaid.
The bill, filed in the Florida House of Representatives in January and the Florida Senate last week, is named after Cody Hudson, a previously healthy college student who developed a severe autoimmune blood clotting disorder after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. His condition is now considered terminal. His family has struggled financially, with his possible treatment, Rituxan, costing $60,000 to $80,000 per year, while federal programs provide little support.
Since 2021, the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP)—a federal program designed to provide limited compensation for injuries caused by vaccines and medical countermeasures during public health emergencies—has received 14,234 COVID-19 vaccine injury claims but has only approved 26. Most payments average less than $3,500. Unlike the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which covers routine childhood vaccines, CICP does not cover legal fees or pain and suffering. Cody’s Law seeks to fill that gap by providing direct state compensation to vaccine-injured individuals.
Cody’s mother, Heather Hudson, has spent years pushing for state-level compensation after failing to get help through CICP. Though she initially struggled to find lawmakers willing to introduce the bill, two state senators agreed to sponsor it before the legislative deadline.
Joseph Sansone, Ph.D., author of the “Ban the Jab” adopted by 10 Florida counties, praised Cody’s Law as a groundbreaking effort to help vaccine-injured individuals.
“Cody’s Law would be a pioneering state-level initiative that would provide medical care to individuals who have been injured by COVID-19 injection that have been lied to and abandoned … These victims are being gaslit and nobody is acknowledging their injuries.”
– Joseph Sansone, Ph.D.
Legal experts say Cody’s Law does not conflict with federal law and could be implemented under the 10th Amendment, which allows states to pass laws not explicitly handled by the federal government.
Some experts warn that the financial burden on Florida’s Medicaid system must be considered. If state compensation is awarded, it could be deducted from any future federal payouts should the CICP or VICP eventually process a claim.
Supporters hope Cody’s Law could set a precedent for other states. They argue that without urgent reform, thousands of vaccine-injured Americans will continue to be ignored by the very system meant to protect them.
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Read the full text of the bill, “Cody’s Law: Florida No Vaccine-Injured Patient Left Behind,” below.
Florida House of Representatives
HB 149 – 2025
An act relating to claims for adverse reactions to vaccines and drugs under the Medicaid and medically needy programs; providing a short title; creating s. 409.9043, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to expedite the review and payment process for claims related to adverse reactions to vaccines, immunizing agents, and emergency countermeasure drugs under the Medicaid and Florida Medicaid medically needy programs; requiring the agency to publish certain information on its website; requiring the agency to seek federal approval for a specified purpose under certain circumstances and to adopt rules; providing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
Section 1.
This act may be cited as “Cody’s Law: Florida No Vaccine-Injured Patient Left Behind.”
Section 2.
Section 409.9043, Florida Statutes, is created to read:
409.9043 Claims for adverse reactions to vaccines, immunizing agents, and emergency countermeasure drugs under the Medicaid and medically needy programs.
(1) The Agency for Health Care Administration shall, under the Medicaid program and the Florida Medicaid medically needy program, expedite the review and payment process for a claim in which the physician has diagnosed a severe, debilitating, life-threatening, or lifelong injury caused by the administration of a vaccine or other immunizing agent or an adverse reaction to an emergency countermeasure drug if the vaccine, immunizing agent, or emergency countermeasure drug is recommended by the United States Food and Drug Administration or the Department of Health of this state.
(2)(a) The agency shall publish on its website:
- A list of medical conditions related to a vaccine, immunizing agent, or emergency countermeasure drug for the expedited claims described in subsection (1).
- A list of potential adverse reactions found in the manufacturer’s product insert of a vaccine, immunizing agent, or drug which are deemed critical, severe, or temporarily or permanently disabling by the agency or the physicians who make the diagnoses in the claims described in subsection (1).
- Any new medical condition related to a vaccine, immunizing agent, or emergency countermeasure drug which arises.
- Any future vaccine, immunizing agent, or emergency countermeasure drug or treatment deemed appropriate by the agency or by the physicians who make the diagnoses in the claims described in subsection (1).
(b) The agency shall also inform its website visitors of the content of this section, including the requirements under subsection (1), so that physicians or other health care providers may best serve patients who have urgent medical needs as a result of an injury caused by the administration of a vaccine or other immunizing agent or an adverse reaction to an emergency countermeasure drug.
(3) The agency shall seek federal approval, if necessary, to implement this section and shall adopt rules to administer this section.
Section 3.
This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
I’m all for this bill, but the American tax payers were forced to pay for the jab, and now they will be forced to pay for the compensation as well. The cost for compensation should be passed back to the companies that provided the jab, as well as those in government that created the problem in the first place.
Sharyl thanks for all you do. You’re one of a kind.
The sheer stupidity and and lack of backbone of Florida knowing the damage this is jab causing not putting a stop to the nonsense.
Are all politicians getting kickbacks from drug companies. Let’s not fix the problem let’s fix the problems the jab causes. And the sad part no amount of money and help will fix Cody or anyone else It’s truly amazing how incompetent lawmakers have become. The funny part is they are pounding there chest thinking they are doing something special knowing damn well. The jabs are killing and injuring innocent people Even Floridas surgeon general knows. When does it stop.