West Virginia Senate Bill 535 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Introduced on February 1 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-01 - To Health and Human Resources
Pending: Senate Health and Human Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to add additional exemptions to the compulsory childhood immunization of school children. The public has a right to be free from communicable diseases, but a parent or guardian has the right to raise a child according to his or her religious and philosophical beliefs. This bill will bring West Virginia in line with 44 other states in the United States that permit a religious, philosophical, or religious and philosophical exemptions to mandatory childhood vaccines. A child should never be denied his or her Constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right to an education.

Creating religious and philosophical exemptions for school attendance vaccines

Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman [R]	Sen. Patricia Rucker [R]	Sen. Jay Taylor [R]	Sen. Mike Azinger [R]
Sen. Vince Deeds [R]	Sen. Robert Karnes [R]	Sen. Patrick Martin [R]	Sen. Mark Maynard [R]
Sen. Rupert Phillips [R]	Sen. Randy Smith [R]	Sen. Chandler Swope [R]	Sen. Mike Stuart [R]
Sen. Eric Tarr [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-01	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2023-02-01	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2023-02-01	Senate	To Health and Human Resources
2023-02-01	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	3	4	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=535&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb535%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=535