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UPDATE: 5/1/2024 - SB 133 is eligible for a House floor vote as of 5/1/2024.
UPDATE: 4/30/2024 - SB 133 was reported with the recommendation to adopt as amended in the House and Governmental Affairs Committee by a vote of 8 Yeas, 2 Nays, on 4/30/2024. The amendment changes the effective date from August 1, 2024 to become effective upon passage.
UPDATE: 4/29/2024 - SB 133 is scheduled for a hearing in the House and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday, 4/30/2024 at 9:00AM in House Committee Room 2. View the Hearing Agenda HERE and the live stream video details HERE. Continue to contact the House and Governmental Affairs Committee Members until a vote is taken. Sometimes a vote is not taken on the day of the hearing.
Written statements can be filed with the House and Governmental Affairs Committee via e-mail at h&[email protected]. View the Guide to House Committee Meetings HERE.
UPDATE: 3/27/2024 - SB 133 was referred to the House and Governmental Affairs Committee on 3/27/2024.
UPDATE: 3/26/2024 - SB 133 passed the full Senate by a vote of 37 Yeas, 0 Nays, on 3/26/2024.
UPDATE: 3/20/2024 - SB 133 was reported favorably out of the Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs Committee on 3/20/2024.
UPDATE: 3/11/2024 - SB 133 was introduced in the Senate and referred to the Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, and International Affairs Committee on 3/11/2024.
SB 133 was prefiled in the Senate on 2/29/2024. This bill is sponsored by Senator Thomas A. Pressly.
SB 133 prohibits the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN), and the World Economic Forum (WEF) from having any jurisdiction in the state of Louisiana. This bill also prohibits the state or any political subdivision of the state from enforcing or implementing any rule, regulation, tax, policy, or mandate of the WHO, UN, or WEF.
SB 133 creates a new section of code under Title 49, related to state administration, to be numbered §24 that relates to the jurisdiction of certain international organizations. This new section prohibits the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN), and the World Economic Forum (WEF) from having any jurisdiction or power within the state of Louisiana. This section also prohibits the state of Louisiana or any political subdivision of the state, parish, municipality, or any other political entity from enforcing or implementing any rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy, or mandate of any kind of the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.
If passed, SB 133 will become effective August 1, 2024.
NVIC SUPPORTS SB 133 because it protects citizens in the state of Louisiana from harmful interference or mandates from international organizations, including vaccine requirements, tracking, testing, and passports. NVIC opposes all vaccine mandates and supports informed consent for all individuals. International organizations like the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum have been hostile toward informed consent to vaccination, which includes the right to refuse a vaccine without coercion, harassment, or penalty. The WHO has labeled individuals who have refused a vaccine for medical, personal, or religious reasons as "anti-vaxxers" and has publicly concluded they are a menace to society and the greatest threat to global health in their 2019 publication. Based on the WHO's opinion that refusing a vaccine is a threat to global health, bills like SB 133 are necessary to protect citizens from global interference with their right to informed consent and an individual's ability to refuse a vaccine for themselves or their child for medical, personal, or religious reasons as codified in Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:170(E) and 17:170.1(C). An improvement to this bill would be to add a penalty for any state entity or political subdivision of the state that violates the provisions of this bill.
For more information on The WHO's International Health Regulations, please read and share the 4/11/2024 commentary by Barbara Loe Fisher at NVIC.org.
https://www.nvic.org/newsletter/april-2024/stop-the-world-health-organization
After contacting your local legislators about actions to be taken in your legislature, you can take additional steps on the state and national level. Please refer to the instructions in the NVICAdvocacy.org Action Alert and share the link with family and friends by email, text, or on social media: https://nvicadvocacy.org/members/State-Teams/My-State/Action-Alert-Details-Alt/itemid/4054/State/US?Page=True
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246137 - text, status, and history of SB 133
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