With the Delta variant spreading and younger children ineligible for vaccines, more states are barring schools from requiring COVID vaccinations as 2021-22 approaches.
bars public schools from mandating vaccines not fully authorized by the F91心頭 and preventing unvaccinated individuals from participating in school activities.
In June, a bill prohibiting schools from requiring vaccines, vaccine passports or masks .
Masking children should not be an easily taken step, especially when many enforcing the mandate were often not wearing masks themselves,” the law’s author, State Sen. Rob Standridge, said in a statement. “Most importantly, schools cannot force unvaccinated children to wear masks. Additionally, students should not be forced to get the COVID vaccine to enroll or attend school.”
Oklahoma schools are also not allowed to post on their website vaccine options for parents.
This bill is about protecting a student’s right to attend public school in person even if that student or their parent decide the COVID-19 vaccine is not the right choice for them, Rep. Kevin West said the statement. This also will protect unvaccinated students from being forced to wear masks when mask mandates do not apply to all.
Some of the states have passed explicit bans on vaccination mandates while others have buried the restrictions in laws that create programs for military children or prohibit vaccine passports. Some of the new laws are prominently posted on state websites while officials elsewhere gave their anti-vaccine legislation scant publicity.
Here’s a look at immunization laws passed this spring and summer:
- 粥鉛温恢温馨温:油In May, prohibits schools from forcing students to receive any newly approved vaccines as a condition of attendance.
- 意艶稼稼艶壊壊艶艶:油 in May prohibits schools and other government agencies from “from promulgating, adopting, or enforcing an ordinance or resolution that requires a person to receive an immunization, vaccination, or injection for the SARS-CoV-2 virus or any variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.”
- Florida: Hurricane emergencies are now the only legal reason administrators cansuspend in-person instruction. A prohibits government entities from “denying service” to anyone based on their vaccination status.
- Arkansas:Government entities, including public schools, can recommend vaccinations , according to a law passed in April.
- 珂看稼岳温稼温:油 makes it illegal to discriminate against anyone based on vaccination status.
- 鴛稼糸庄温稼温:油Government entities cannot issue or require vaccine passports under .
- 雨岳温鞄:油The state took action in March, that doesn’t single out public schools but “prohibits a governmental entity from requiring that an individual receive a 16 vaccine for COVID-19.”
