l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2755

"Vaccine Discrimination and Transparency Act"; prohibit coercion related to vaccination.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT ENTITLED THE "VACCINE DISCRIMINATION AND TRANSPARENCY ACT"; TO PROHIBIT FINANCIAL INCENTIVES OR PENALTIES TO ENCOURAGE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO ADMINISTER VACCINATIONS; TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INDIVIDUALS WHO REFUSE CERTAIN MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS AND CREATING A CIVIL CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST ENTITIES WHO DISCRIMINATE BASED UPON SUCH MEDICAL CARE REFUSAL AND REVOKING THE AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ORDER INDIVIDUALS TO ISOLATE OR QUARANTINE AND IMPOSE PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF; TO STANDARDIZE OBTAINING A MEDICAL EXEMPTION FOR REQUIRED VACCINATIONS; TO PROHIBIT TEACHERS OR SCHOOL OFFICIALS FROM DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN STUDENTS BASED ON WHETHER A STUDENT HAS OR HAS NOT RECEIVED A VACCINATION; TO PROHIBIT THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH FROM REQUIRING ENROLLMENT IN THE STATE'S IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY OR REQUIRING IMMUNIZATION TRACKING; TO AMEND SECTION 41-23-37 MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE FOR A PERSONAL BELIEF EXEMPTION FROM VACCINATION REQUIREMENTS AND IN CONFORMITY THERETO; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

Its course

January 20 to February 4, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

Public Health and WelfareJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the Senate Jan 20 – Feb 4

  1. Referred to the Senate committees on Public Health and Welfare and on Judiciary, Division A
  2. Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published