Federal funding cuts to immunization efforts and a new law that allows exemption forms to be downloaded, instead of mailed, could drive up exemptions in the future.

Previously, parents had to wait for the state to mail them the exemption form. They still have to get the form notarized ...

Before this, parents had to wait for the Texas Department of State and Health Services to mail the form to them.

A new Texas law lets parents download school vaccine exemption forms online, ending mail-in delays and giving families faster ...

More than half of Texas' counties have MMR vaccination rates among kindergartners below the threshold the Centers for Disease ...

As Texas students settle into the new school year, state law says this is the time school districts should be ensuring every ...

A nurse administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic organized by the Travis County Mobile Vaccine Collaborative at Rodriguez Elementary School on July 28, 2021. “Vaccine exemption requests ...

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