--- title: Vaccines: California Lawmakers Pass Strict School Vaccine Bill description: The California senate has passed a bill that requires most children in public schools to get vaccinations and ends exemptions from vaccinations for personal beliefs canonical: https://time.com/3940545/california-passes-vaccine-bill/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-29T20:07:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:38:46.478Z article:section: Health og:title: California Lawmakers Pass Strict School Vaccine Bill og:description: The bill ends vaccine exemptions for personal beliefs. og:url: https://time.com/3940545/california-passes-vaccine-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: California Lawmakers Pass Strict School Vaccine Bill twitter:description: The bill ends vaccine exemptions for personal beliefs. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # California Lawmakers Pass Strict School Vaccine Bill by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 29, 2015 8:07 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Jun 29, 2015 8:07 PM UTC The California senate has passed a bill that requires most children in public schools to get vaccinations and ends exemptions from vaccinations for personal beliefs. The bill only allows for kids with serious health problems to not get vaccinated. The bill is now heading to California Governor Jerry Brown, who has not said whether he will sign the bill. It would be one of the strictest vaccination laws in the country. California recently experienced an outbreak of measles that was tied to a Disneyland amusement park. Many of the people infected [were not vaccinated](http://time.com/3746253/disneyland-measles-low-vaccination/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3940545/california-passes-vaccine-bill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3940545/california-passes-vaccine-bill/"},"headline":"California Lawmakers Pass Strict School Vaccine Bill","datePublished":"2015-06-29T20:07:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:38:46.478Z","description":"The bill ends vaccine exemptions for personal beliefs","url":"https://time.com/3940545/california-passes-vaccine-bill/","keywords":["Infectious Disease","California","Vaccines","measles"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/infectious-disease/","name":"Infectious Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3940545/california-passes-vaccine-bill/","name":"California Lawmakers Pass Strict School Vaccine Bill"}}]}] ```