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

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 ...

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

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 philosophical exemption is a problem with this bill. If we go down the route of allowing people to opt out of public health and public safety requirements because they don’t like them, I feel ...

The current religious exemption law does not include colleges ... declaring they wish to be exempt from vaccine and testing requirements due to religious reasons. The student would not be required ...

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

A federal court upheld New York’s denial of religious exemptions to its vaccine requirements and the Maine Supreme Court ruled that medical ... The Empire State did away with its religious exemption ...