Lawmakers are expecting big, passionate crowds for Wednesday’s public hearing in Hartford about banning nonmedical exemptions for childhood vaccinations
The state legislature’s Public Health Committee, controlled by Democrats, has proposed a bill that would only permit exemptions to school-vaccination requirements for medical reasons. If approved, Connecticut would become the sixth state in the U.
S. to ban nonmedical exemptions to vaccines.United States Latest News, United States Headlines
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