Texas House Bill 2292 has 86-pages of policies on health and human services in Texas.  But buried somewhere within these pages is one little-known paragraph.  A paragraph about "exemption by conscience", a law that says you don't have to get your kids vaccinated.

Here's a basic outline:

• A written request has to be sent to the Texas Department of Health to recieve the exemption affadavit, a form that hasn't even been developed yet.
• The child's parent or guardian then has to fill it out and have it notarized before the exemption is accepted.

The new law is designed to protect parents who decide against vaccinations.  But one local daycare owner asks, who's going to protect the children?

At Tenderhearts Daycare, kids watch TV, play ball and just enjoy life, safely.

"In the world we live in, where we worry about terrorism, this is just one thing I don't want to have to worry about," says owner Tracy Noble.

Noble says giving parents the option to decline vaccinations could cost her business.  "I'm fearful I would lose daycare kids," she says.  "There would be parents that would object to that, having children that didn't have immunizations."

Noble has heard the controversy, people claiming vaccines cause convulsions, paralysis, and even autism.  Yet she says it's worth the risk.  "I understand being fearful of your child becoming retarded  but I've done daycare for over 20 years, and I've never had a child that was hurt from getting his shots," she says. 

Beckie brawley is Public Health Coordinator at the Lubbock Health Department.  She says parents shouldn't be fooled into thinking vaccines aren't needed.  "Measles, mumps, rubella, polio, parents don't see them anymore.  But that's because we have vaccines to prevent them," she points out.  

But Brawley says the recent resurgence in whooping cough proves the diseases aren't gone forever. "If we have parents who start not immunizing their children, we very well could start seeing these preventative diseases again," she says.

Noble says if that happens, daycares won't be the only ones in trouble.  "As far as schools are concerned, I bet there are people who will home school because this will be a big fear," she says.