West Virginia News – Since signing an executive order providing religious exemptions to vaccines earlier this year, Gov. Patrick Morrisey has called on lawmakers to codify the exemptions into law. However, measures aimed at doing so failed during the regular session this year.
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Morrisey continues to tout the support he’s received from U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy to do away with the state’s mandatory vaccine laws. But economic and policy experts say the governor and the Legislature should focus on bills that would have tangible impacts on West Virginia, not fringe bills that only a small portion of the population are invested in.
“Our whole focus needs to be on what can we do to make people and businesses want to come to West Virginia,” said West Virginia University economist John Deskins.
