Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits all religious and philosophical vaccination exemptions for public school students.

Highlights:

• Authorizes a child who is not immunized as required under the law for reasons other than a medical diagnosis to attend online educational courses (Sec. 2).

• Prohibits a child who is not immunized as required under the law from attending any in person class, event or meeting and specifies certain medical vaccination exemptions (Sec. 2).

• Defines “restricable diseases” as the following, including, but not limited to (Sec. 4):

• Tetanus or polio;

• Measles or mumps;

• Diphtheria, pertussis, or rubella; or

• Hepatitis A or B, varicella, or haemophilus influenzae type B.

• Specifies that all students in grades Kindergarten through grade 12 to submit to school administrators a record file documenting that they have received immunizations against restrictable diseases (Sec. 8).

• Authorizes students who are not immunized and have not provided to the school administrator written documentation on their immunization exemptions to attend school until August 1 2020 (Sec. 14).

• Establishes that this act shall go into effect immediately upon passage (Sec. 17).

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