Skip to main content
Minnesota Department of Health logo
  • Main navigation

    • Home
    • Data, Statistics, and Legislation
    • Diseases and Conditions
    • Health Care Facilities, Providers, and Insurance
    • Healthy Communities, Environment, and Workplaces
    • Individual and Family Health
    • About Us
    • News and Announcements
    • Translated Materials

Main navigation mobile

  • Data, Statistics, and Legislation
  • Diseases and Conditions
  • Health Care Facilities, Providers, and Insurance
  • Healthy Communities, Environment, and Workplaces
  • Individual and Family Health
  • About Us
  • News and Announcements
  • Translated Materials
MDH Logo

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Individual and Family Health
  3. Immunization
  4. Immunization: Me and My Family
Topic Menu

Me and My Family

  • Infants, Children, and Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Find My Immunization Record
  • Where to Get Vaccinated
  • International Travelers
  • Reliable Sources of Immunization Information
  • Stories

Me and My Family

  • Infants, Children, and Adolescents
  • Adults
  • Find My Immunization Record
  • Where to Get Vaccinated
  • International Travelers
  • Reliable Sources of Immunization Information
  • Stories
Contact Info
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
IDEPC Comment Form

Contact Info

Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
IDEPC Comment Form

Minnesota's Immunization Law Exemption Provision

Minnesota immunization law requires that in order for a child to enroll in child care, early education programs, or school a parent must show they have received immunizations or an exemption.

Exemptions

  1. Medical Exemption
    If an immunization is medically contraindicated for a child, or if there is laboratory confirmation that a child is already immune to certain diseases against which immunization is normally required, the student may submit a statement to this effect, signed by a health care provider, in order to be considered exempt from the contraindicated or unnecessary immunization.
  2. Non-Medical Exemption
    If a child's parent or guardian, or the child (in the case of an emancipated minor), wishes to be exempt, based on their beliefs, from one or more immunization requirements, the parent or child may submit a statement to this effect, signed by the submitting person and notarized.
  • Get Your Non-Medical Exemption Form Notarized
    A list of places in Minnesota where exemption forms can be notarized.
  • Minnesota Statutes, section 121A.15 Health Standards; Immunizations; School Children
    Exemptions from immunizations is under subdivision 3.

Forms

Exemptions can be obtained by utilizing the appropriate sample immunization record forms for students, child care, and early childhood at Vaccines for Infants, Children, Adolescents.

Tags
  • immunize
Last Updated: 04/24/2024

Get email updates


Minnesota Department of Health logo

Privacy Policy
Equal Opportunity
Translated Materials
Feedback Form
About MDH
Minnesota.gov
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Linked In
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
Minnesota Department of Health Minnesota Department of health print search share facebook instagram linkedin twitter youtube