Hawaii SB1437 aims to reduce non-medical exemptions to school immunization requirements to protect public health.
Hawaii SB1437 seeks to improve the health and safety of school-aged children by minimizing exemptions from school immunization requirements. The bill emphasizes the importance of high immunization rates to achieve herd immunity, which protects medically fragile children who cannot be safely immunized. It allows for medical exemptions based on a licensed physician's certification and maintains religious exemptions.
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