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 ...

The vaccination requirements do not include the COVID ... Any child already attending school with an already approved religious exemption, however, can remain exempt. The vote came after hours ...

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 ...

"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 ...