![]() NCSL appreciates additions and corrections.Flagging vaccination rates over the summer of 2021 combined with a sudden surge of the COVID-19 delta variant in recent weeks have prompted many businesses and organizations, and even some state and federal government entities, to implement vaccination requirements for employees. ![]() Note: List may not be comprehensive, but is representative of state laws that exist. Sources: Chart adapted from Immunization Action Coalition, "Exemptions Permitted for State Immunization Requirements," 2017 LexisNexis StateNet 2017 *Missouri's philosophical exemption only applies to day care centers. For example, Minnesota allows objections based on “conscientiously held beliefs of the parent or guardian.” Philosophical exemption indicates that the statutory language does not restrict the exemption to purely religious or spiritual beliefs. Religious exemption indicates that there is a provision in the statute that allows parents to exempt their children from vaccination if it contradicts their sincere religious beliefs. School Vaccine Requirements and Exemptions StateĬal. ![]() Utah House Bill 308 requires the Department of Health to create an online education module regarding certain preventable diseases amends the grounds for exemptions from required vaccines requires the renewal of a student's vaccination exemption under certain conditions create a new vaccination exemption form allows for the vaccination exemption form to be completed online in conjunction with the education module and discontinues the practice of allowing local health departments to vaccinate students and recover costs.Indiana House Bill 1069 adds meningitis to the required immunizations a student enrolling in a residential campus of an approved postsecondary educational institution must be immunized against.Louisiana House Bill 176 requires students who are entering eleventh grade or who are 16 and entering any grade to provide satisfactory evidence of current immunization against meningococcal disease as a condition of school entry, and provides for exceptions.Illinois Senate Bill 2866 provides for the distribution of written information about the link between HPV and certain types of cancers to all students entering sixth grade and their parents or legal guardians.Washington House Bill 1638 removes the personal belief exemption for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine requirement for public schools, private schools and day care centers.New York Senate Bill 2994 removes the religious exemption for public school immunization requirements.Maine House Bill 586 removes personal and religious belief exemptions for public school immunization requirements.Arkansas House Bill 1786 requires a public or private school to create and maintain a report that provides certain information regarding the number and percentage of students who have an exemption from the requirement to obtain vaccinations.Virginia House Bill 1090 provides that the Board of Health's Regulations for the Immunization of School Children shall be consistent with the Immunization Schedule developed and published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.It establishes an immunization goal of 95% of each school's student population and requires schools to publish its immunization and exemption rates on a document that is distributed to parents, guardians and students. Colorado Senate Bill 163 requires a person seeking a nonmedical exemption (either religious or personal belief) to submit a certificate of completion of an online educational module or a certificate of nonmedical exemption. ![]()
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