South Carolina’s MMR Bill Meets a Wider Measles Surge
Tuesday, June 23, 2026 · 6 min
South Carolina measles legislation would remove the public-school MMR religious exemption, tying vaccine-entry rules to an Upstate outbreak tracked at 962 linked cases; UCLA Health adds the national context: coverage below herd-immunity targets and more global circulation.
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South Carolina measles legislation would remove the public-school MMR religious exemption, tying vaccine-entry rules to an Upstate outbreak tracked at 962 linked cases; UCLA Health adds the national context: coverage below herd-immunity targets and more global circulation.
In this episode
- 2025-2026 Bill 897: Measels Vaccine Required to Attend Public School - South Carolina Legislature Online — South Carolina General Assembly
South Carolina General Assembly 126th Session, 2025-2026 Download [This Bill](897.docx) in Microsoft Word Format ~~Indicates Matter Stricken~~ Indicates New Matter S. 897 STATUS INFORMATION General Bill Sponsors: Senators Matthews, Sutton and Graham Document Path: SR-0106CEM26.docx Introduced in the Senate on February 5, 2026 Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Medical…
- Step Back — With school exposure notices piling up and some states arguing over exemption rules, how much can school-entry vaccine laws actually change a measles outbreak — do they help in the middle of a surge, or mostly prevent the next one?
Background sources
- The 2025 measles outbreak in Texas | BMC Infectious Diseases | Springer Nature Link — Springer Nature Link
- Frontiers | Non-medical exemptions and state-level variation in kindergarten MMR vaccination coverage, United States, 2016–2024 — Frontiersin
- Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2023–24 School Year | MMWR — MMWR
- After nearly 1,000 cases, here's how South Carolina officials beat back a measles outbreak - ABC News — ABC News
- Measles is spreading fast in S.C. Here's what it says about vaccine exemptions — Npr
- Michigan Found a Way To Reduce School Vaccine Waivers. Until It Backfired. - KFF Health News — Kate Wells
- After reaching a 30-year high in cases last year, measles is soaring again in 2026 | UCLA Health — UCLA Health
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