Upholding a Vaccine Exemption Bill
This straightforward Bill provides that the legal remedy against a school/daycare for failing to honor a vaccine exemption be included in the same section of law that provides for the exemption itself. After passing the House, the Bill died in Senate Education Committee. Republican Senator Mark Abraham (Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Parishes) made the motion to involuntarily defer the Bill, which had the effect of killing it because Republican Senators Robert Mills (Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster Parishes) Beth Mizell (St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington Parishes) and Kirk Talbot (Jefferson Parish) failed to object. These 4 Republican Senators were decisive in killing this critically important legislation in Committee. It is simply incomprehensible why these Republicans would have killed this legislation considering the fact that many Louisianans remain unaware that they have a core constitutional right to decline the Covid vaccine.
