Despite threats of arrests by the California Highway Patrol, opponents of SB 276 by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) who attended the Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing Friday at the California State Capitol, stood on chairs and voiced their opposition to the bill which will end all medical exemptions to state mandated childhood vaccinations.

Most of the parents protesting already have "vaccine-injured" children, and want the medical exemption for their other children.

Committee Chairwoman Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez opened the hearing Friday announcing that she would take SB 276 out of the order of bills scheduled "for the people who traveled." And then she announced that the bill was passed out of the committee "on a 'B' roll call," meaning all committee Democrats voted "yes" to pass it out, and all Republicans voted "no."