Immunization Exemption
Nevada Immunization Laws
Nevada law requires that children receive specific immunizations before entering public and private kindergarten-12th grade schools, licensed child care centers, and universities. Most children need booster shots before starting kindergarten and 7th grade to meet these requirements.
Schools with lower immunization rates are more vulnerable to the spread of diseases such as measles and whooping cough. By increasing the immunization rates in our schools, we are protecting students from preventable diseases and ensuring a healthy economic future for our community.
Exemption rules
Students and children with appropriate medical conditions may receive temporary or permanent medical exemptions if authorized by their physicians. Medical immunization exemption forms must be submitted to the school, child care facility, or university on a form provided by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health.
Students and/or parents who want to exempt their child/student from one or more required immunizations because of their religious beliefs must provide to the school, child care facility, or university a religious immunization exemption form provided by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health.
To protect themselves and others from spreading disease, children with any of these exemptions can be excluded from school during an outbreak of a disease against which they are not fully immunized. In addition to the vaccines for which an exemption is being requested, parents must submit official immunization records to the school or daycare for the vaccines that the child did receive. This will help schools know which students have and haven’t been immunized when a vaccine-preventable disease may be spreading at school.
Exemption forms
Child Care – Medical Immunization Exemption Certificate
Child Care – Religious Immunization Exemption Certificate
Preschool-12th Grade – Medical Immunization Exemption Certificate
Preschool-12th Grade – Religious Immunization Exemption Certificate
University – Medical Immunization Exemption Certificate
University – Religious Immunization Exemption Certificate
College - Medical Immunization Exemption Certificate
College - Religious Immunization Exemption Certificate
Formularios de exención
Guardería infantil – Certificado Médico de Excepción de Vacunas
Guarderías – Certificado Religioso de Excepción de Vacunas
Preescolar - 12.º Grado – Certificado Médico de Excepción de Vacunas
Preescolar - 12.º Grado – Certificado Religioso de Excepción de Vacunas
Universidad – Certificado Médico de Excepción de Vacunas
Universidad – Certificado Religioso de Excepción de Vacunas
Colegios – Certificado de Excepción Médica de Vacunas
Colegios – Certificado Excepción Religiosa de Vacunas