Here is the amended language:

“(2) Commencing January 1, 2020, a child who has a medical exemption issued before January 1, 2020, shall be allowed continued enrollment to any public or private elementary or secondary school, child care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or developmental center within the state until the child enrolls in the next grade span.”

“grade span is defined below:

2. All medical exemptions are only good for a “grade span” which “means each of the following:
(A) Birth to preschool, inclusive.
(B) Kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, including transitional kindergarten.
(C) Grades 7 to 12, inclusive..”

There is no such thing as a permanent medical exemption

Here is the language:

“All medical exemptions shall not extend beyond the grade span, as defined in Section 120370.”

3. The penalty of perjury part of the physician’s certification has been removed.
Here is the language:

“A certification by the issuing physician and surgeon, under penalty of perjury, surgeon that the statements and information contained in the form are true, accurate, and complete.”

Here is the big one:

“(4) Medical exemptions issued prior to January 1, 2020, shall not be revoked unless the exemption was issued by a physician or surgeon that has been subject to disciplinary action by the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.”

“has been subject to disciplinary action” probably means that the physician has been sanctioned or disciplined by the Board, as opposed to just being the Respondent (defendant) in a Board disciplinary action/proceeding. If so, the exemptions of Bob Sears can be revoked since he has been sanctioned by the Board, but the exemptions of Ken Stoller cannot (yet) because while he is the subject of a current disciplinary proceeding, no disciplinary action has been taken against him. But honestly, I am not sure about that.

Are the medical exemptions written by the disciplined/sanctioned doctors automatically revoked? NO

“(C) A medical exemption that the reviewing immunization department staff member determines to be inappropriate or otherwise invalid under subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall also be reviewed by the State Public Health Officer or a physician and surgeon from the department’s immunization program designated by the State Public Health Officer. Pursuant to this review, the State Public Health Officer or physician and surgeon designee may revoke the medical exemption.”

So an exemption written by a disciplined doctor still has to go through the SB 276 review process before it is revoked. My view is that almost every single medical exemption written by a disciplined physician using broader than CDC contraindications will be revoked.

That means if you have a medical exemption and the writer has been disciplined (or possibly the subject of a disciplinary action), it will most likely be revoked, but it is unclear when. My guess is that there will be some very quick process, because the appeal is just a procedural fig leap to create the illusion of due process.

4. Here is part two of the Bob Sears payback rule:

“(C) If a physician and surgeon licensed with the Medical Board of California or the Osteopathic Medical Board of California is on probation for action relating to immunization standards of care, the department and governing authority shall not accept a medical exemption form from the physician and surgeon unless and until the probation has been terminated.”

So Bob Sears and any other physician who gets probation as a board sanction is out of the medical exemption writing business. I am assuming this provision only applies to post January 2020 exemptions and not exemptions written prior thereto, which under (2) above appear to be valid for the first half of calendar year 2020. But then, you never know with these jokers.

So what’s the bottom line?

Currently, medically vaccine exempt will technically continue to be vaccine exempt until the (i) the physician who wrote the exemption is under a board disciplinary order and (ii) whoever reviews exemptions decides that it is not consistent with applicable standards (CDC, APA, AAFP, ACIP) and if appealed, the appeal affirms the revocation (and pretty much all revocation appeals will be affirmed).

When will that happen? Who knows, but that is what is coming, so plan accordingly.

This is a typical Pan move. Make it look like he’s giving something up to placate the powers he needs to placate, but in reality, he’s turning the thumb screws another full turn on the vaccine concerned/vaccine injured families.

Governor Newsom: If you’re listening, don’t be fooled by this bill/amendment. It does nothing to protect the vaccine injured families. Please reconsider your support for this bill.

And by the way, the community thinks that home schoolers are Senator Pan’s next target.

Rick Jaffe, Esq.
rickjaffeesquire@gmail.com