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States Address School Vaccine Mandates

Updated January 2, 2024

With the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, many states are winding down COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Additionally, some states are moving to limit the ability of state and educational institutions to require COVID-19 vaccinations in schools, both for students and faculty.

Explore states’ up-to-date approaches to school COVID-19 vaccine requirements on the map below. To find the status of individual states’ efforts to limit or enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates for public and private entities, as well as actions that require public and private entities to provide exemptions for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, view NASHP’s map on state efforts to limit or enforce vaccine mandates.

Pediatric Immunization Schedule

On October 20, 2022, CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to add COVID-19 vaccines to the recommended pediatric immunization schedule. While most health care providers follow ACIP guidance when making vaccine recommendations for their patients, adding vaccines to the CDC’s pediatric immunization schedule does not constitute a vaccine mandate. State governments determine school immunization requirements for their jurisdictions.

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