SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Opponents are dropping their attempt to block California’s new law cracking down on doctors who write fraudulent medical exemptions for school children’s vaccinations.
They had floated two measures that could have put the law on hold until voters considered overturning it next year, but did not submit more than 600,000 required signatures before Monday’s deadline.
The law taking effect in January will allow state public health officials to investigate doctors who grant more than five medical exemptions in a year and schools with vaccination rates of less than 95%, the threshold that experts say means a population is resistant to a disease like measles.
The legislator behind the law criticized opponents for engaging in “a stunt.”
