VACCINES/VACCINATION: Provides that no person shall be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of enrollment or attendance at any public or nonpublic school
This bill prohibits government agencies and businesses from requiring employees or students to receive COVID-19 vaccines or take experimental drugs that lack full FDA approval. It also bans mandates for wearing face coverings to prevent the spread of the virus. However, the law includes specific exceptions for healthcare facilities, nursing homes, correctional institutions, and other medical settings where federal guidelines require vaccination. Additionally, the state attorney general has the authority to seek court orders to stop any entity that violates these new restrictions.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Apr 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Jan 30, 2024
Signed Jun 19, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 23, 2024 · House Apr 3, 2024
How they voted
24–9
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 37
May 23, 2024
D
Democratic12
75% Nay
R
Republican25
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 23, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 26 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 20, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 3, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 74, nays 28. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 27, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (13-1).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Jan 30, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 15 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Kathy Edmonston
RRepublican
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Beth Billings
RRepublican
Co
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
Co
Gabe Firment
RRepublican
Co
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
Co
Kellee Hennessy
RRepublican
Co
Kim Coates
RRepublican
Co
Michael Echols
RRepublican
Co
Mike Bayham
RRepublican
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