Health officials watch California on vaccine bill

  With regard to vaccines, the eyes of health care professionals are on California.
  Iowa allows no philosophical exemption to vaccines, only a medical or a religious exemption.
  Butler County Public Health Director Jennifer Becker said Iowa law requires that agencies audit vaccine records for proof of vaccine or for the religious or medical exemption.
  Fewer than 10 exemptions were on file in Butler County last fall, she said.
  California now allows a philosophical exemption to vaccines. That may change if the governor signs a bill the legislature was expected to pass on Monday, June 29.
  Read more in the July 2 Butler County Tribune-Journal and Clarksville Star.