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Texas House votes to largely prohibit mandatory vaccines for children put in temporary Child Protective Services care

Published on May 10, 2017 under CommunityImpact

In what was expected to be a discussion of a largely bipartisan-supported bill that proposes improvements for the state’s Child Protective Services agency, the merits of vaccines were hotly debated Wednesday afternoon. One of the solutions proposed in the bill, authored by state Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, would require the Department of Family and Protective Services to administer a medical and mental examination for children in CPS custody for more than three days. These children would have likely been taken out of the custody of parents for safety concerns. The guidelines for these examinations would be set by the Health […]

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Source: Community Impact- Round Rock

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