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 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1377 Immunizations: medical exemptions.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/25/2026 09:00 PM

SB1377:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 25, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1377

Introduced by Senator Jones

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend Section 1250.06 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. add Article 16 (commencing with Section 2380) to Chapter 5 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, to amend Sections 120325 and 120375 of, to add Sections 1272.5 and 1374.199 to, to repeal Section 120372.05 of, and to repeal and add Sections 120370 and 120372 of, the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 10127.22 to the Insurance Code, relating to immunizations.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1377, as amended, Jones.
 Health facilities. Immunizations: medical exemptions.

(1) Existing law prohibits the governing authority of a school or other institution from unconditionally admitting any person as a pupil unless, before the person’s admission to that institution, the person has been fully immunized against various diseases, including any disease deemed appropriate by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law provides for medical exemptions from immunization requirements.

Existing law requires the department to develop and make available for use by licensed physicians and surgeons an electronic, standardized, statewide medical exemption certification form to be transmitted directly to the
 department’s California Immunization Registry (CAIR) and submitted directly to the school or institution at which the child will attend, submitted directly to the governing authority of the school or institution, or submitted to that governing authority through the CAIR where applicable. Existing law requires the form to be the only documentation of a medical exemption that the governing authority may accept. Existing law requires the department to identify medical exemption forms that do not meet specified criteria for appropriate medical exemptions. Existing law requires inappropriate or otherwise invalid exemptions to be reviewed by the State Public Health Officer or a physician and surgeon, and authorizes the revocation of the medical exemption. Existing law requires the department to notify the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, as appropriate, of any physician and surgeon who has 5 or more medical exemption forms in a calendar year that are revoked. Existing law
 authorizes the appeal of a revoked medical exemption by a parent or guardian, as specified.

This bill would repeal these provisions. 

Existing law, prior to January 1, 2021, exempts a child from immunization requirements if the parent or guardian files with the governing authority a written statement by a licensed physician and surgeon to the effect that the physical condition of the child is such, or medical circumstances relating to the child are such, that immunization is not considered safe, indicating the specific nature and probable duration of the medical condition or circumstances for which the physician and surgeon does not recommend immunization.

This bill
 would exempt a child from immunization requirements if the parent or guardian files with the governing authority a written statement, as described above. The bill would prohibit the department, a local health department, or a third-party review panel from revoking, invalidating, or conditioning a medical exemption duly issued by a licensed physician and surgeon, except by final order of a court upon clear and convincing evidence of fraud. The bill would prohibit the department and local health departments from auditing, disciplining, or referring a physician and surgeon to the Medical Board of California or Osteopathic Medical Board of California based solely on the number of medical exemptions issued.

(2) Existing law establishes the Medical Board of California and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons and osteopathic physicians and surgeons. Existing law authorizes the boards
 to, among other things, investigate and discipline licensees for misconduct.

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