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Vermont Lawmakers To Weigh Vaccine Conference Report

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Vermont House and Senate members are set to decide whether to accept a conference committee's compromise on childhood immunizations.

The House wanted to maintain a philosophical exemption for parents who don't want to have their kids get the roughly 20 shots required before entering kindergarten.

The Senate wanted to get rid of that exemption, saying doing so would boost immunization rates, which are a key public health measure.

Now a conference committee has proposed allowing the philosophical exemption unless the immunization rate falls below 90 percent for a given vaccine, in which case no further philosophical exemptions would be approved.

For that measure to become law, both the House and Senate need to approve the compromise, and prospects for that are uncertain.

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