Texas bill to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employers stalls in the Senate as business groups

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Texas bill to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employers stalls in the Senate as business groups rally against it

by Mitchell Ferman and James Barragán, Texas Tribune


Legislation intended to block any Texas entity, including hospitals and private businesses, from mandating COVID-19 vaccines for employees has stalled out in the Senate with less than two days left in the third special legislative session this year.

State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, said he opposes the bill, which makes entities requiring the vaccines vulnerable to discrimination lawsuits. Seliger said the legislation — added to the session agenda as a late priority by Gov. Greg Abbott — does not have the votes to pass in the upper chamber.

“At the moment it’s not too well developed,” Seliger said of Senate Bill 51, authored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Tyler, calling it “anti-business.”

“I’ve got some real reservations because I think it’s another example of big government,” Seliger said. “And we don’t do that.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/18/texas-covid19-vaccine-mandates-bill/

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1. "And we don't do that." - Republicans are doing it more and more.

[LeftInTX]

2. "It's dead," state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, said of SB 51.

I hope he's right!

[Budi]

3. Money talks, Gov Abbot!

Businesses push back.
Good.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Texas biz groups come out in force against ban on vaccine mandates for private employers"

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This makes me smile

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