Dr Sohail Bhatti, interim director of public health at NHS East Lancashire, said during a meeting of the board that making the change could tackle the low uptake of the MMR jab in East Lancashire.
His suggestion followed a comment from another board member that in France it is policy for nurseries to only accept children if they have been immunised.
The primary care trust's figures for 2008/09 revealed a belowaverage number of children having the MMR by their second and fifth birthdays.
The reduction in the number of children vaccinated in England and Wales is blamed on Dr Andrew Wakefield's 1998 study, now discredited, which cited a link between MMR and autism.
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