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Missouri lawmakers prefile bill prohibiting vaccine mandates

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Lawmakers in Missouri are set to consider legislation that would prohibit employers from mandating their workers receive the COVID-19 vaccine under certain conditions.

S.B. 693, pre-filed on Wednesday, states that it “shall be unlawful for an employer to require an employee to receive COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment without permitting the employee to be exempted from such vaccination requirements because of the employee's religious or philosophical beliefs, medical condition, including pregnancy or future pregnancies, or previous exposure to and recovery from COVID-19.”

While the employer may require the employee seeking the exemption to provide such a request in writing, the bill states that employees would not be required “to explain, prove, defend, or otherwise substantiate his or her religious or philosophical beliefs or medical conditions relating to requesting the vaccination exemption.”

The bill also prohibits employers from requiring an employee who has requested or received a vaccination exemption to undergo COVID-19 diagnostic testing in place of vaccination.

 

 

 

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