Texas launches downloadable form to exempt kids from school-required vaccines

[struggle4progress]

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.

By Terri Langford
Sept. 4, 2025
23 hours ago

This week, the state health agency quietly unveiled the new downloadable vaccine exemption form, the result of state Rep. Lacey Hull’s House Bill 1586 which went into effect on Monday. Along with the form, the Texas Department of State Health Services also published a document listing the benefits and risks of immunization.

The new law does nothing to change the childhood vaccine schedule. Instead, it would allow parents to download at home a form that allows children to be exempted from being vaccinated in order to attend public schools. The parents can show the same filled out form for two years before having to fill out a new one.

Before the new law, parents had to contact the state health agency and request the exemption form be mailed to them ...

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/04/texas-vaccine-exemption-form-download/

[Botany]

1. Insanity

Do those dumb ass Texans know that Helen Keller went deaf and blind from fever caused
by a disease such as measles and those diseases can be stopped by vaccinations?

Same state that stopped putting up a flash flood warning system along the Guadalupe River
which was paid for because, “Joe Biden is a Communist.” Real quote from a Texas dumb fuck
in 2021 in Kerr County, TX.

[SamKnause]

2. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

Let's see which state can start the deadliest outbreak, pandemic, or maybe bring back polio.

Maybe they could win prizes from the Trump administration for killing the largest amount of people.

I hate these evil mother fuckers more than words can describe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Botany]

4. Maybe Texas can skip the polio vaccinations and they can bring back the iron lung.

Btw just about all the anti vaccine nonsense originated from Russian misinformation*
in order to weaken America and the GOP and right wing media and web sites are more
then happy to spread it onto MAGA mouth breathers and Christo Fascists who believe
that their Jay Bezz USS gives them magical powers.

* storm-15 16 and before that Internet Research Agency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm-1516

[SheltieLover]

3. Fucking idiots!

[Aristus]

5. Vaccine exemptions are one of the reasons I stopped visiting with pediatric patients.

I was completely done with a bunch of dumb-fuck, self-righteous Karens pulling out the form the minute I walk into the exam room, then complaining to the manager when I tell her to her dipshit face and asymmetrical hairdo: “Not a chance. Don’t even hope.”

I’d rather spend the whole day with my homeless patients than five minutes with one of those slimy, anti-science fuckponies.