The bill offers no exceptions for doctors’ offices, clinics or other health facilities. Senators agreed to let those entities require unvaccinated employees to wear personal protective gear or take other “reasonable” measures to manage the spread.
Medical personnel ralled against Houston Methodist Hospital's COVID-19 vaccine mandate outside the Baytown facility on June 7, 2021. Several employees who chose not to inoculate themselves worked their last shift Monday and will face job termination, a policy criticized by the protesters as unfair and unauthorized.
The vote comes after years of Republican attempts to reign in COVID-related restrictions like mask mandates and vaccine requirements. Supporters said the bill is critical to support individual rights to make their own health care decisions without negative consequences to their livelihoods. Including health care facilities and doctors’ offices in the ban triggered objections by two members of the Senate Health and Human Services committee who have had kidney transplants — Sen., R-Brenham, who on Thursday supported allowing health care facilities to enact other policies for employees who choose not to be vaccinated.
Bill purists fought against allowing health care providers to circumvent, even slightly, the ban proposed by Middleton’s legislation and wanted to see it passed as originally written., R-Edgewood, have openly said they don’t trust the vaccine’s safety and efficacy.
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