The Senate Education Committee advanced two bills that would relax vaccine requirements for K-12 students.
House Bill 182 prohibits requiring a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of enrollment or attendance at a public or nonpublic school, applicable to licensed day care centers, K-12 schools, and colleges and universities.
Present law requires each person entering any school including licensed day care centers, elementary and secondary schools, and colleges/universities, for the first time to present satisfactory evidence of immunity to or immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases.
The proposed law provides, notwithstanding present law, that no person shall be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of initial enrollment or continuing attendance at a public or nonpublic school and that no person shall be required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of initial enrollment or continuing attendance at a public or nonpublic school.
Both the Department of Education and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education supported the bill.
House Bill 182 can be read below:
