Why Sen. Steiner Hayward dropped her controversial vaccine bill and what's next
State Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward may have backed off her tough vaccine bill, but she's not giving up the fight to boost immunization rates in Oregon.
Steiner Hayward, a Beaverton Democrat and family physician, is crafting new legislation that will allow parents to obtain non-medical exemptions from vaccines but will make them a bit harder to obtain. SB 442, her original bill eliminating those exemption altogether, will be withdrawn.
"It became clear that it would have been tough, if not impossible,…
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Posted on March 11, 2015
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