West Virginia House rejects bill allowing religious and private schools to decide on vaccine exemptions.

The West Virginia House of Delegates rejected a bill that would have allowed religious and private schools to decide whether to accept vaccine exemptions from families. The current law only allows medical exemptions. The Senate had supported allowing exemptions for philosophical reasons, but this was not included in the House bill. West Virginia has one of the lowest vaccine exemption rates in the US, though the rejection comes amid growing measles outbreaks in neighboring states.