The only states without religious or personal belief exemptions for school immunization requirements are California, Connecticut, Maine, Mississippi, New York and West Virginia, according to the ...

Is your child up-to-date on vaccines? Here’s what you need to know about Mississippi immunization requirements for the ...

With COVID-19 vaccine mandates taking effect around the country, requests for religious exemptions are on the rise. Under federal law, employers have a lot of discretion in granting the requests.

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 ...

A West Virginia woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinations for her young child. Miranda Guzman alleges that the state's vaccine mandate violates a ...

In 2019, however, CHOA denied the employee's request for a religious accommodation and fired him, despite the employee's extremely limited interaction with the public or staff.

About 120 (0.1%) had a medical exemption to at least one of the 12 state-required vaccinations. Another 1,452 students (1.2 percent) had a religious exemption. But not all exemptions are created ...

As a result of the Religious Exemption Rule’s rescission, OFCCP states it plans to “return to the department’s prior policy and practice in place during the presidencies of George W. Bush ...

Most likely, though, Muslims would not qualify for an exemption from U.S. health insurance requirements because U.S. Muslims do not have a tradition of spurning Social Security (which is viewed ...

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Monday that will eliminate school vaccine requirements for those who claim religious exemptions, but only for some schools.. Last week, the House ...

Religious exemptions are rare, with just 813 issued to kindergarteners in the most recent school year, but hundreds more families claim them now than did 20 years ago. They are by far the most ...