Colorado House advances bill to boost child vaccinations
Colorado’s House has advanced another Democrat-led effort to raise the state’s child immunization rates, this time by adding new requirements for parents who choose to opt out of routine vaccinations on religious or personal grounds.
By News Channel Nebraska
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s House has advanced another Democrat-led effort to raise the state’s child immunization rates, this time by adding new requirements for parents who choose to opt out of routine vaccinations on religious or personal grounds.
Efforts in past sessions to adopt new opt-out requirements have generated intensely vocal opposition from parents and anti-vaccination advocacy groups, with hundreds of opponents crowding the Capitol to testify against them.
A similar protest was held outside the Capitol on Sunday, when the Democrat-led Senate passed the current bill. Coronavirus-related restrictions prevented similar gatherings inside the building, and opponents accused Democrats of purposely limiting opportunities to testify to get the proposal to the finish line.