Montana’s effort to expand religious exemptions to vaccines prompts political standoff

Montana lawmakers are in a standoff with the state’s health department over a package of sweeping changes to child care licensing rules that includes a disputed provision to allow religious exemptions to routine vaccinations for children and workers. This story also appeared in KFF Health News Both Republican and Democratic legislators on the Children, Families, Health, and Human Services Interim Committee voted on Jan. 18 to renew their informal objection to the proposed child care licensing rules, which the committee has blocked since November