“Come August, most high schoolers in Louisiana will have to show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or submit a written exemption to attend school, after an effort among lawmakers to reverse the rule by Gov. John Bel Edwards fell apart Wednesday,” KTBS 3 reports.
Edwards’ decision last year to add the COVID-19 jab to the school shots list caused controversy among lawmakers, but they were unable to make the Democratic governor stand down.
Lawmakers then attempted to pass a legislative resolution.
From KTBS 3:
Authored by House Health & Welfare Committee Chair Larry Bagley, House Concurrent Resolution 3 would’ve repealed Edwards’ rule in its entirety. It passed the House and needed only to win approval in the Senate to go into effect.
But following a tense hearing Wednesday, the Senate Health & Welfare Committee voted 4-3 to reject the resolution, keeping Edwards’ rule alive.
Dr. Robert Malone testified before the LA Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday.
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It is so annoying that conservative media ignores that @LAGOP is failing voters. We have a Republican legislature and yet that can’t seem to pass anything that matters to voters and refused to stop Dem governor lockdowns in our state. https://t.co/sXlVOZNMUP
— NolaMom 🐊💜💛💜🐊 (@pedsscrub) May 13, 2022
LA HCR3 would repeal “administrative rules of the La. Department of Health adding COVID vaccines to the state immunization schedule and requiring schools to prohibit in-person attendance by certain unvaccinated students.”
HCR3 failed to pass Senate Health and Welfare with a party line vote of 4-3. Chairman Mills abstained.
Once again, Louisiana is first in a race nobody else wants to be a part of. The only state in the country to require covid vaccination for school attendance. #lalege
— Health Freedom Louisiana (@HealthFreedomLA) May 11, 2022
NEW: Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ decision to add the COVID-19 vax to the school shots list survives, for now. Senate Health & Welfare votes 4-3 to reject HCR3, which would’ve removed it through a legislative resolution. #lalege https://t.co/kmo8ANJDpo
— Blake Paterson (@BlakePater) May 11, 2022
Health Freedom Louisiana provided further details:
On May 11th, the Senate Health and Welfare committee failed to acknowledge the will of the people, science, and medical ethics by voting against HCR3, legislation that would prevent the addition of the covid vaccine and any accompanying boosters to the required list of vaccines for school attendance.
This measure, while dead in committee, may be revived if brought to the Senate floor with a discharge petition.
Contact your State Senator: let them know that the shot should not be added to the required list for school attendance and that you fully support a discharge petition to bring it to the Senate floor.
2/ If you haven’t, ask them now to support a vote on the Senate floor for HCR3. 💬
👇👇👇https://t.co/rGRslI5MR2— Health Freedom Louisiana (@HealthFreedomLA) May 14, 2022
Covid does not fit the statutory requirement of a “vaccine-preventable” disease in 17:170.
Adding the 💉 to the required list for school attendance is a violation of the law. And yet
[email protected] .@LouisianaGov are still going forward. #morons#lalege vote YES on HCR3‼️ pic.twitter.com/VYS0lEmwMX— Health Freedom Louisiana (@HealthFreedomLA) May 11, 2022
The only possible consequence of submitting a shot exemption form is possible exclusion during an outbreak of a vaccine preventable disease. You cannot be tested, masked, or ostracized because you are unvaxxed. Know your rights. https://t.co/vCpnZtpFfc
— Health Freedom Louisiana (@HealthFreedomLA) May 14, 2022
