Texas' high rate of vaccine exemptions is the source of an ongoing, and sometimes heated, debate.
In addition, Mississippi posted the lowest rate of vaccine exemptions among 46 reporting states and the District of Columbia, according to a report published Thursday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Moving to a single rate of VAT without exemptions would eliminate this distortion but it would also be regressive.
Overall, the rate of personal belief exemptions at California kindergartens with at least 10 students doubled to 3.1% last fall from 1.5% in 2007.
The deal would ultimately set an exemption of $5 million per person and a maximum rate of 35 percent — a higher exemption and far lower rate than many Democrats wanted.
Los Angeles Unified kindergartens, for example, had an overall exemption rate of just 1.6%, although there are several in the district where more than 8% of students have belief exemptions.
Three Texas private schools reported a vaccine exemption rate of 30percentt or higher among students.
(Oregon had the nation's highest exemption rate of 6.4percentt, up from 3.4percentt four years prior).
Gaines County, Texas, which has a population of approximately 18,400 people, had a personal belief vaccination exemption rate of 4.83percentt between 2015 and 2016 for measles.
The estate tax is back at a maximum rate of 35%, with a $5 million exemption for individuals and $10 million exemption for married couples.
The strongest opposition in the House was to the estate tax provision, which would set an exemption of $5 million per person and a top rate of 35 percent -- a higher exemption and lower rate than many Democrats want.
