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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One advocacy group says “religious” exemptions have risen by 500% since the 1980s, despite religious affiliations declining.

Washoe County School District waivers for vaccines, including measles, has more than doubled. Thousands have claimed ...

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 ...