An Alabama Senate committee gave favorable approval to a bill relaxing the process allowing K-12 students to be exempt from ...

As West Virginia lawmakers are considering easing vaccine requirements for school children, there are signs measles are ...

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 30 states offer a religious exemption to mandatory immunization requirements, while 13 states offer both a religious and philosophical ...

To qualify for the exemption, families would submit an annual written statement requesting a religious or philosophical ... a bill loosening vaccination requirements in some schools, drawing ...

The law simply applies New York's school immunization requirements to all schoolchildren who do not qualify for the law's medical exemption. Moreover, the act of repealing the religious exemption ...

Religious immunization waivers in the Washoe County School District have more than doubled in the last decade, with schools in affluent areas leading in exemptions. Six Washoe County schools with ...

"However, I will say, again, 45 other states recognize that it's safe to have, at a minimum, a religious exemption." Weld also criticized the bill's lack of reporting requirements. "The bill has ...

To qualify for the exemption, families would submit an annual written statement requesting a religious or philosophical ... with existing West Virginia requirements if they choose.

Increasing vaccination exemptions beyond medical to personal for public school children could risk the state’s leadership in communicable disease prevention, according to one health care expert. “At ...