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UPDATE: 3/18/2024 - SB 192 was enacted, it was signed by Governor Spencer J. Cox on 3/84/2023, The effective date is 5/1/2024. Click HERE for a press release with all bills signed by Governor Cox on 3/18/2024.
UPDATE: 3/11/2024 - SB 192 was enrolled on 3/11/2024.
UPDATE: 2/28/2024 - SB 192 with the House changes/amendments is concurred by the Senate with a vote of 26 Yeas, 0 Nays, and 3 Absent on 2/28/2024. View the Amendment HERE.
UPDATE: 2/28/2024 - SB 192 passed the third reading in the House by vote of 74:0.
UPDATE: 2/28/2024 - SB 192 was amended on the floor with Amendment #2 by a voice vote on 2/28/2024. The amendment does not change the bill's provisions that NVIC supports. NVIC does not take a position on the rest of the bill's provisions which are unrelated to vaccines. View the Amendment HERE.
UPDATE: 2/27/2024 - SB 192 passed the House 3rd Reading as amended by a vote of 69 Yeas, 0 Nays, and 6 Absent on 2/27/2024.
UPDATE: 2/27/2024 - SB 192 was amended on the floor with Amendment #1 by a voice vote on 2/27/2024 and was placed on the House 3rd Reading Calendar for Senate bills on 2/27/2024. The amendment does not change the bill's provisions that NVIC supports. NVIC does not take a position on the rest of the bill's provisions which are unrelated to vaccines. View the Amendment HERE.
UPDATE: 2/27/2024 - SB 192 passed the House 2nd Reading as substituted in the House Education Committee and was placed on the House 3rd Reading Calendar for Senate bills on 2/27/2024. The substitution does not change the bill's provisions that NVIC supports. NVIC does not take a position on the rest of the substituted provisions which are unrelated to vaccines. View the Committee Report HERE.
UPDATE: 2/23/2024 - SB 192 was favorably recommended as substituted in the House Education Committee by a vote of 10 Yeas, 0 Nays, and 5 Absent on 2/23/2024. The substitution does not change the bill's provisions that NVIC supports. NVIC does not take a position on the rest of the substituted provisions which are unrelated to vaccines. View the Committee Report HERE.
UPDATE: 2/22/2024 - SB 192 was referred to the House Education Committee on 2/22/2024.
UPDATE: 2/21/2024 - SB 192 was introduced in the House on 2/21/2024.
UPDATE: 2/21/2024 - SB 192 passed the Senate 3rd Reading as substituted by a vote of 27 Yeas, 0 Nays, and 2 Absent on 2/21/2024. The substitution does not change the bill's provisions that NVIC supports. NVIC does not take a position on the rest of the substituted provisions which are unrelated to vaccines.
UPDATE: 2/20/2024 - SB 192 passed the Senate 2nd Reading with a vote of 24 Yeas, 0 Nays, and 5 Absent on 2/20/2024. It was then placed on the Senate 3rd Reading Calendar
UPDATE: 2/13/2024 - SB 192 was favorably recommended as substituted in the Senate Education Committee by a vote of 7 Yeas, 0 Nays, and 2 Absent, on 2/13/2024. The substitution does not change the bill's provisions that NVIC supports. NVIC does not take a position on the rest of the substituted provisions which are unrelated to vaccines. View the Committee Report HERE.
SB 192 was introduced in the Senate and referred to the Senate Education Committee on 2/5/2024. This bill is sponsored by Senator Ann Millner.
SB 192 prohibits higher education institutions from requiring vaccines unless the institution allows for medical, religious, or personal belief exemptions. This bill is part of a broad higher education bill. NVIC does not take a position on any provisions in this bill that are unrelated to vaccines.
SECTION 18. of SB 192 amends Utah Code §53B-3-103, related to the power of higher education board to adopt rules and enact regulations, to prohibit an institution from requiring proof of vaccination as a condition for enrollment or attendance within the system of higher education unless the board or an institution allows for a medical exemption or personal belief exemption if the student's claimed exemption is for a personal or religious belief. This amended subsection is renumbered §53B-3-103 (3)(b)(i). Existing code already prohibits a board of education from requiring proof of vaccination as a condition for enrollment. This bill expands that prohibition to the higher education institution itself.
Renumbered subsection §53B-3-103 (3)(b)(ii) also prohibits an institution that offers both in-person and remote learning options from denying a student with a vaccine exemption from participating in an in-person learning option based on the student's vaccination status.
Renumbered subsection §53B-3-103 (3)(b)(iii) excepts students studying in a medical setting at an institution of higher education from the provisions in these subsections. NVIC is OPPOSED to exempting medical students from these protections, but still supports the bill.
NVIC SUPPORTS SB 192 because it provides protections for higher education students from vaccine requirements and from discriminatory practices of separation or exclusion from in-person learning based on vaccine status. NVIC is opposed to all vaccine mandates and all forms of discrimination based on vaccine status. Vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry the risk of injury and even death. Vaccination should not be a condition of receiving an education, even for students studying in a medical setting. An improvement to this bill would be to remove the exception for medical students. It would be even better to prohibit all vaccine mandates from all institutions of higher education, including teaching hospitals, rather than to allow vaccine mandates with exemption options.
https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0192.html - text, status, and history of SB 192
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