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WV SB610
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/27/2026
Primary Sponsor
Patricia Rucker
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AI Summary
- Transfers authority to grant medical exemptions from mandatory school vaccinations from the state commissioner to the child's treating physician or advanced practice provider
- Eliminates the State Immunization Officer position, which previously reviewed exemption requests on a statewide basis
- Allows exemption when a physician or advanced practice provider provides a written statement that vaccination "is or may be detrimental to the child's health"
- Removes the state's authority to deny, suspend, or revoke medical exemptions to compulsory vaccination requirements
- Applies to vaccinations required for public, private, and parochial schools as well as state-regulated child care centers (chickenpox, hepatitis-b, measles, meningitis, mumps, diphtheria, polio, rubella, tetanus, and whooping cough)
Legislative Description
Relating to medical exemption to mandatory vaccination requirements
Health
Last Action
To Health and Human Resources
1/27/2026
Committee Referrals
Health and Human Resources1/26/2026
Full Bill Text
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