NEW YORK: A2371, what it means for the religiously exempt, and some thoughts about how to fight it
As you all know, in a one-day legal Blitzkrieg, and without a public hearing, both houses of the New York Legislature passed, and the Governor signed a bill removing the religious exemption to mandatory school vaccination. A2371 is now law in New York. Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/a2371/amendment/a The new law has an immediate effect on families who had a religious exemption, until this law passed. The law states that school officials cannot allow unvaccinated children to “attend” school for…