Texas governor’s new mandate prevents employers, private businesses from requiring COVID-19 vaccine

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Abbott asks Texas Legislature to enshrine prohibition into law

Texas Gov Greg Abbott, beforehand center, is flanked by State Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, beforehand left, and Rep. Greg Bonnen, R-Friendswood, beforehand right, with others looking connected arsenic helium signs a measure that provides further backing for information astatine the U.S.-Mexico borderline Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, successful Fort Worth. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

SAN ANTONIO – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a caller enforcement bid Monday, extending the prohibition of COVID-19 vaccine mandates connected backstage businesses and employers.

Under Executive Order GA-40, “no entity successful Texas tin compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by immoderate individual, including an worker oregon a consumer, who objects to specified vaccination for immoderate crushed of idiosyncratic conscience, based connected a spiritual belief, oregon for aesculapian reasons, including anterior betterment from COVID-19.”

Previously, Abbott’s enforcement bid banning COVID-19 vaccine requirements lone extended to governmental entities.

The bid states that anyone violating the enforcement bid whitethorn beryllium taxable to a fine, but cannot beryllium confined successful jailhouse for it.

The enforcement bid whitethorn spur much ineligible enactment against Texas arsenic the authorities is successful the midst of ineligible battles with aggregate section entities implicit erstwhile enforcement orders.

Abbott besides announced that helium is adding the contented to the existent peculiar session, allowing the Texas Legislature to enshrine his latest enforcement bid into law. The enforcement bid volition lone beryllium rescinded aft authorities lawmakers walk the bill.

Read the afloat enforcement bid below.

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