Bill would require older students to have HPV vaccine to attend school

Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry introduced the Cancer Prevention Act last week. The bill would add the human papillomavirus or HPV immunization to the list of 10 vaccines that students are required to have before attending public or private schools in California.

Students would be required to have to have the immunization before entering the eighth-grade. The requirement doesn’t apply to students in home-based private schools or who are enrolled in an independent study program.

Medical exemptions would be allowed.