Thu Nov 25, 2021 – 8:11 am ESTThu Nov 25, 2021 – 8:22 am EST
TOPEKA, Kansas (LifeSiteNews) — The Kansas legislature has passed a bill to protect workers from federal COVID vaccine mandates.
The bill was passed on Monday by both the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate. It aims to protect workers from President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate by forcing employers to allow for a wide range of vaccine exemptions, including religious exemptions, and by offering unemployment benefits to unvaccinated Kansans who lost their job as a result of not getting the jab.
The bill received 24 votes against 11 in the Kansas Senate and 77 votes against 34 in the House of Representatives.
The final version of the bill was the result of a compromise among legislators and did not include an earlier Senate amendment that banned Kansas businesses from imposing vaccination on employees in the first instance.
However, the bill still offers Kansas workers a certain protection from the discriminatory mandate by allowing them to claim exemptions based on medical as well as religious and philosophical grounds.
The final version also includes a severability clause to protect the bill, should parts of
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