Bill Text: IL HB5161 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the COVID-19 School Health Care Program Vaccination Program Limitation Act. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-09 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB5161 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB5161-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB5161 Introduced , by Rep. Tony M. McCombie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the COVID-19 School Health Care Program Vaccination Program Limitation Act. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
COVID-19 School Health Care Program Vaccination Program
Limitation Act.
Section 5. Purpose. It is the purpose of this Act to allow
individuals to have the bodily autonomy to make the decision
of whether or not to receive a vaccination or its related
booster that was approved by the United States Food and Drug
Administration to be used under emergency use authorization
for treatment of COVID-19. The State is compelled to recommend
that health care facilities do not mandate that students
enrolled in a health care program receive a vaccine or its
related booster that has been approved under emergency use
authorization as a condition of participation in any stage of
the health care program.