HB2036 would exempt state employees, K-12 school children, and students in public institutions of higher education from mandatory immunizations based on a “conscientious or personal objection.”
The House failed to advance HB2026 on February 22, 2023, by a vote of 14 to 84. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because vaccine mandates should be opposed, as an individual’s non-injurious activities, including personal health care decisions, are private matters that should not be under federal, state, or local jurisdiction in the United States. To compel American citizens to receive medical treatment would be to violate their fundamental rights of conscience protected by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.