Lawmakers revisit vaccine exemptions

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Close-up medical syringe with a vaccine.

Employers and schools would be restricted from enforcing vaccine requirements under legislation that revisits issues the Legislature grappled with in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Senate health committee on Wednesday took up a bill called the Conscientious Right to Refuse Act, which limits how employers and schools can respond to someone who refuses to be vaccinated based on their "conscience."

The bill creates a civil cause of action against schools or businesses that discriminate against anyone because they refused to get vaccinated.

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