California bill limiting vaccination opt-outs for children clears committee

Revised bill limits parents’ ability to opt-out of vaccinating children but allows exemption for homeschooled and independent study students

A controversial California bill that would require more children to be fully vaccinated as a condition of attending both public and private schools cleared a key legislative hurdle today.

By a 7-2 vote in front of the hundreds of red-garbed opponents of the bill who had jammed the hearing room, the senate education committee moved the proposed law forward – with the inclusion of two amendments that addressed concerns legislators and the public voiced last week, when the bill was first introduced to the committee.

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