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Action Alert: PA Bill alters vaccine exemptions
Please contact your legislator today to ask them to vote against SB 390.

A Pennsylvania bill would interfere with parents’ right to make medical decisions for their children by making it more difficult for parents to claim the religious exemption to school immunization requirements. Please contact your state senators and ask them to oppose SB 390.

In February, six Pennsylvania senators filed SB 390, a bill to amend the law for obtaining a religious exemption to the state’s school immunization requirements.[1] Pennsylvania’s school immunization requirements specifically apply to home education programs, so this bill would also affect homeschoolers.

Pennsylvania’s immunization law currently requires a “written objection” stating a parent’s religious grounds for objecting to the vaccination.[2] The Administrative Code also allows for a philosophical exemption “similar to a religious belief.”[3] A space on the current certificate of immunization (the green and white card) provides for a one-time “statement of exemption to immunization law.”[4]

While HB 390 would specifically codify an “objection of religious belief or moral or ethical conviction,” it would also enact much more stringent requirements for claiming any non-medical exemption. The new subsection would require, (1) the Department of Health to create a new, separate form for the written objection, which (2) must be signed by a person authorized to administer immunizations to (3) certify that they “provided the parent or guardian of the child with scientifically accepted information prescribed by the Department of Health on the benefits and risks of immunization.”[5]

This immediately presents some problems:A medical professional would be required to be involved for parents to claim even a non-medical exemption.
Medical professionals could refuse to sign it.
Other requirements in the bill are alarmingly vague:It is not clear to whom exemption forms must be “submitted.”
The form does not yet exist and could require additional invasive information, especially if it must be filed electronically.
Action Alert: PA Bill alters vaccine exemptions
Please contact your legislator today to ask them to vote against SB 390.

A Pennsylvania bill would interfere with parents’ right to make medical decisions for their children by making it more difficult for parents to claim the religious exemption to school immunization requirements. Please contact your state senators and ask them to oppose SB 390.

In February, six Pennsylvania senators filed SB 390, a bill to amend the law for obtaining a religious exemption to the state’s school immunization requirements.[1] Pennsylvania’s school immunization requirements specifically apply to home education programs, so this bill would also affect homeschoolers.

Pennsylvania’s immunization law currently requires a “written objection” stating a parent’s religious grounds for objecting to the vaccination.[2] The Administrative Code also allows for a philosophical exemption “similar to a religious belief.”[3] A space on the current certificate of immunization (the green and white card) provides for a one-time “statement of exemption to immunization law.”[4]

While HB 390 would specifically codify an “objection of religious belief or moral or ethical conviction,” it would also enact much more stringent requirements for claiming any non-medical exemption. The new subsection would require, (1) the Department of Health to create a new, separate form for the written objection, which (2) must be signed by a person authorized to administer immunizations to (3) certify that they “provided the parent or guardian of the child with scientifically accepted information prescribed by the Department of Health on the benefits and risks of immunization.”[5]

This immediately presents some problems:A medical professional would be required to be involved for parents to claim even a non-medical exemption.
Medical professionals could refuse to sign it.

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