California Assembly advances crackdown on vaccine exemptions for California students
The California Assembly passed contentious vaccine legislation on Tuesday, a vote immediately met with an announcement from the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom that changes to the legislation would be required before it reaches his desk.
But last week, Capitol watchers discussed the possibility that Newsom would push for additional amendments to the legislation .Shortly after the vote on Tuesday, the office of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon notified Pan that the governor’s changes would be added to another bill. Standing on the Assembly floor after the vote, the s enator appeared surprised by the news. Advocacy groups on both sides of ths issue scrambled for updates on what Newsom was proposing.
SB 276 passed the Assembly 47 to 17 in a surprise vote that was not expected until later in the week. It now heads back to the Senate, where an earlier version passed in May.Under the bill , the California Department of Public Health would review and potentially reject medical exemptions written by doctors who have granted five or more in a year. Newsom is asking that the tally on how many medical exemptions a doctor writes apply only to those written after Jan. 1.
Anthony York, a spokesman for the California Medical Assn. , which is the lobbying arm of doctors in the state, said the current bill “reflects an agreement reached by the administration and the author and it’s one the governor committed publicly to signing.” York said the proposed changes by Newsom and how they might affect the bill will have to be weighed separately.
But the bill’s supporters have alleged that some doctors are profiting off unneeded exemptions, prompting lawmakers to introduce legislation to create state oversight of the process. Hundreds of parents have protested the bill since it was introduced this year, arguing that SB 276 would interfere with the doctor-patient relationship and that the restrictions will make doctors hesitant to write new medical exemptions.
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