Right to Exemption Bill
Among the most important Bills of the Session, this legislation requires any Louisiana school or daycare to accept either a written statement from a treating doctor submitted by a student contra-indicating a vaccine, or a written dissent from the student, and also provides that the students’ legal right of exemption be included, in writing, with any communication issued to students or their guardians about immunization requirements. This Bill was hugely important due to the widespread and often coercive effort in Louisiana by the Health Department and the Governor to pressure Louisiana citizens into getting the Covid vaccine, without concurrent disclosure of their right of exemption, of which many Louisianans were unaware. It was necessitated also by the increasing evidence of the severe adverse health effects that the Covid vaccine has caused to an alarming number of Louisianans. Stunningly, Senate Republican President Paige Cortez (Lafayette Parish) refused to call the Bill to a vote, and it died in the Senate, after passing the House and the appropriate Senate Committee. Cortez’ treacherous betrayal of the citizens of Louisiana on this Bill is another important reason he should never hold elected public office in Louisiana again.
