Previously, parents had to wait for the state to mail them the exemption form. They still have to get the form notarized before submitting it to the school for enrollment purposes.

A lab employee works in the Tropical Medicine Lab at the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development on Oct. 5, 2021 in Houston. Credit: Justin Rex for The Texas Tribune A bill that makes ...

Texas school districts are coming back from summer with a rising number of parents asking for vaccine exemption forms and a new law that will make those documents even easier to obtain. Combined with ...

A 7-year-old receives a dose of the pediatric COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Majesty Event Center in Tyler in November 2021. (Tyler Morning Telegraph File) Texas school districts are coming ...

A nurse administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic organized by the Travis County Mobile Vaccine Collaborative at Rodriguez Elementary School on July 28, 2021. “Vaccine exemption requests ...

Read full article: Supreme Court to deliver decision on Friday in case that led PornHub to pull out of Texas A lab employee works in the Tropical Medicine Lab at the Texas Children's Hospital Center ...

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Support the Tribune now for your chance to win a two-night Fort Worth experience. Federal funding cuts to immunization efforts and a new law that allows exemption forms to be downloaded, instead of ...