Updated on August 5, 2026(LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s Republican Attorney General, James Uthmeier, warned the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops that Catholic schools may be disqualified from state-funded scholarships and vouchers due to their denial of vaccine religious exemptions. Uthmeier wrote a letter to the bishops on Friday advising them that under Florida law, schools must provide religious exemptions from vaccination requirements if a parent has a religious objection to the vaccine. Today, I sent a letter to the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops regarding their schools’ vaccine mandates. Ironically, they won’t offer religious exemptions as prescribed by state law. Nevertheless, the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee stated that requests for religious exemptions “will not be considered in any Catholic schools of this diocese.”