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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 721

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Relating to: employer liability under worker's compensation for mandatory or coerced COVID-19 vaccines.

Employment Vaccination Veteran Workers compensation

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides that, for the purposes of worker's compensation, an injury

caused to an employee by a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that the

employee was required by or coerced by his or her employer to receive is presumed

to be caused by the individual's employment.

The presumption requires a diagnosis and may be rebutted by specific evidence

that the injury was caused outside of employment.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bernier (R) , Jacque (R) , Nass (R)

14 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Brooks (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Knodl (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Moses (R) , Plumer (R) , Rozar (R) , Schraa (R) , Sortwell (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tusler (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jan 20, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 20–12 Feb 15, 2022 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Nov 19, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Nass, Bernier and Jacque; cosponsored by Representatives Sortwell, Moses, Cabral-Guevara, Knodl, Kuglitsch, Plumer, Rozar, Schraa, Tusler, Brandtjen, Wichgers, Thiesfeldt and Allen

  2. Nov 19, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform

  3. Jan 11, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Jan 20, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Jan 20, 2022 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Labor and Regulatory Reform, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  6. Jan 20, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  7. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Brooks added as a cosponsor

  8. Feb 11, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-15-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  9. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  10. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 20, Noes 12

  11. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  13. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 15, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  16. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1