Measles is spreading from New York to Texas to Washington state in the worst outbreak in years, but some state lawmakers want to loosen the rules covering whether kids get inoculated
But giving people lists of vaccines’ trace chemicals without context is "designed to scare," not inform, said Dorit Reiss, a law professor at the University of California Hastings School of Law in San Francisco who studies vaccine laws. By federal law, parents already get handouts with information about the tiny risks of vaccines.
In Texas, despite a measles outbreak in Houston, there's no serious effort to tighten exemptions. But Republican state Rep. Matt Krause introduced a bill, TX HB1490 , that would prohibit the state from even tracking exemptions. He's part of a group of far-right lawmakers allied with the PAC Texans for Vaccine Choice. His bill is not expected to advance.
More than a century of federal law has established that states can require vaccination, however. People also have the right to send their children to school without exposing them to preventable, serious diseases like measles, said California Sen. Richard Pan, author of the state's 2015 law, CA SB277.
with 92.9 percent in the 2015-16 school year. But growing medical exemptions could threaten those gains, he said.
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