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Texas has been the center of the nation’s largest measles outbreak in decades. It has sickened more than 700 people in the state and killed two unvaccinated children. Yet even as the outbreak winds down, the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature is poised to make it significantly easier for parents to get the exemption forms needed to enroll their children in school without standard vaccinations for diseases such as measles, polio and hepatitis A and B. A vote by the Senate as early as Sunday could send it to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott