A California lawmaker has amended contentious vaccine legislation amid a national measles outbreak, sharpening its focus on unprincipled doctors while easing the list of conditions physicians could cite in allowingchildren to skip required immunizations.
A nurse prepares the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in New York.
“The Governor would like to thank Dr. Pan for his leadership and for partnering with the Administration on these amendments,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly, referring to Sen. Richard Pan, in a statement. The amendments Tuesday did not pacify groups opposed to the bill or the scores of parents who have flooded the Capitol in protest. Many parents took to social media, where they said the bill is worse, arguing that new penalties could have a chilling effect on the willingness of doctors to write medical exemptions.
SB 276 would make it more difficult for doctors to exempt children from shots required to attend public or private school by granting the state Department of Public Health oversight authority.
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