Texas Bill Seeks to Close Vaccine Mandate Loophole For Students

Students who are a part of Texas’s taxpayer-funded education system could soon be joining the state’s private employees in having the freedom to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine without punishment if a bill recently filed in the legislature becomes law. If passed, the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom for Students Act would expand on a recently passed law that bans all vaccine mandates in private businesses, to include students at colleges, nursing programs, and medical schools that receive federal funds. The bill was filed on Nov. 9 by Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison, who told The Epoch Times that the bill’s passage is necessary to ensure that Texas students, as well as the staff at large state-run institutions, have the same freedom in determining their personal health decisions as the state’s private employees....