Proposed S.B. No. 540
Session Year 2023

AN ACT CONCERNING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FROM STATE MANDATES REGARDING THE COVID-19 VACCINE.

To prohibit the state from questioning a person's religious beliefs or the sincerity of such beliefs by requiring an employee, who is required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and chooses not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds, to assert anything more than that the employee objects to receiving such vaccine on religious grounds.

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