Bill Text: NJ S3267 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-10-31 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee [S3267 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-S3267-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 3267

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 31, 2022

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic)

Senator  MICHAEL L. TESTA, JR.

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senators Durr, Holzapfel, Oroho and Pennacchio

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 as condition of attending public K-12 schools.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning student immunization requirements and supplementing Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    In no case shall the Commissioner of Health or any other entity of State government require immunization against SARS-CoV-2 as a condition of attendance at a public primary or secondary school.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the Commissioner of Health and other State governmental entities from requiring immunization against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as a condition of attendance at a public primary or secondary school.