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SACRAMENTO -- Ending months of speculation, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed into law Senate Bill 277, which requires almost all California schoolchildren to be fully vaccinated in order to attend public or private school, regardless of their parents' personal or religious beliefs.
California now joins only two other states -- Mississippi and West Virginia -- that permit only medical exemptions as legitimate reasons to sidestep vaccinations.
The clamor around the elimination of the "personal belief exemption" heated up in California after a measles outbreak started last December at Disneyland.
By the time they declared the outbreak over in mid-April, state health officials confirmed 136 measles cases in California. That's something that Sens. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento and his SB 277 co-author Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, say could have been prevented if more Californians, particularly those in communities with low-vaccination rates, were fully immunized.
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