Denton County parents will no longer have to wait weeks for a vaccine exemption form to be mailed to them if they want their children opted out of state-required immunizations to attend school.

Last week, the state health agency quietly unveiled the new downloadable vaccine exemption form, the result of State Rep. Lacey Hull’s House Bill 1586 which went into effect last Monday. Along with the form, the Texas Department of State Health Services also published a document listing the benefits and risks of immunization.

The new law does nothing to change the childhood vaccine schedule. Instead, it would allow parents to download at home a form that allows children to be exempted from being vaccinated in order to attend public schools. The parents can show the same filled out form for two yea

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