West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature has voted to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements. The bill was approved Saturday despite the objections of Republican Senate Health and Human Resources Chair Mike Maroney, a trained doctor.
FILE - The West Virginia Capitol with its dome framed by turning sugar maples leaves is seen, Nov. 3, 2014, in Charleston, W.Va. Lawmakers in West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday, March 9, 2024, to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as some of the most strict in the country. CHARLESTON, W.Va.
“It’s a bad bill for West Virginia, it’s a step backward. There’s no question, no question there will be negative effects,” Maroney said. He added, “It’s an embarrassment for me to be a part of it, it should be an embarrassment to everybody.” The new proposed vaccine law in West Virginia, which now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice, allows virtual public school students to be exempt and for private and parochial schools to institute their own policies either exempting students or not.
“I personally do not urge passage, but your health committee urged passage of this bill,” Maroney said before introducing the bill in the Senate., as introduced in the state House of Delegates, was to eliminate vaccine requirements for students in public virtual schools. It was expanded in a House committee to allow private schools to set their own vaccination standards, unless a student participates in sanctioned athletics.
Former West Virginia Republican Delegate Chanda Adkins, a group member, said during the meeting that religious families who don’t want to vaccinate their children deserve to be able to live their convictions.
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