A wisconsin lawmaker is re- introducing legislation to eliminate the "personal conviction waiver" from the state's vaccination requirement.

The proposal was first introduced in 2016-- but it didn't pass.

Amanda quintana is here with why the recent measles outbreaks have doctors and lawmakers pushing for people to get vaccinated.

Democratic representative gordon hintz says wisconsin has one of the broadest exemptions of any state in the country... making it easy to opt out of vaccinations.

You can opt out for medical reasons or religious... but he says 90- percent of the waivers are for personal reasons.

That's what he wants to get rid of.

This comes as the centers for disease control and prevention has confirmed 704 individual cases of measles in 22 states since january 1st.

((( "if all children get vaccinated we have herd immunity so by everyone getting vaccinated we don't see measles and then people don't get measles.

But if people stop vaccinating and we get a certain percentage of the population that's not vaccinated for things like measles, then you can start to lose that herd immunity and people can start to get measles and we start to see these outbreaks like we're currently dealing with here in the united states" ))) dr. cara moll says shes getting a lot of questions from patients about measles... and people are concerned.

Although wisconsin has not yet seen a measles case this year, hintz said this legislation is a "proactive measure."

The bill was just re-introduced today so we're still in the beginning stage for this legislation.

The wisconsin medical society, children's hospital of wisconsin and wisconsin public health association are ...among a list of health organizations supporting it so far.

Amanda,