Bill > H582

This bill aims to protect medical exemptions for immunizations required for school attendance. It amends existing law to allow children to be admitted to school upon a physician's certification that vaccination or immunization would endanger the child's health, based on the physician's independent medical judgment. The bill also ensures the confidentiality of such medical certifications and protects physicians from disciplinary action or negative consequences for providing them, unless there is evidence of bad faith. The bill maintains the existing exemption for children whose parents object to immunization on religious grounds.

Education, Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/193/H582