by Marco Cáceres May 15, 2023 READ
On June 29, 2015, then-governor of California Jerry Brown signed into law California Senate Bill 277. The law, which took effect on July 1, 2016, removed the personal belief/religious exemption to vaccination for children attending public and private schools and daycare centers. SB 277 was followed by SB 276 and its companion bill SB 714 which limited the ability of doctors to grant medical exemptions for childhood vaccinations. Both of those bills were signed into law by California’s Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019.1 2 3