Trenton Republicans are banding together against Governor Phil Murphy in an attempt to preemptively stop the governor from mandating COVID-19 shots to children as young as six months old in New Jersey.
Lawmakers are anticipating a Murphy mandate after the CDC issued a guideline suggesting shots for infants and school-aged children.
“Parents across the state share my concerns about the Administration’s intentions,” said Corrado (R-40). “This bill makes it clear that we don’t want Trenton bureaucrats bullying New Jersey families with more medical demands.”
Corrado’s bill (S-3267) specifically states: “In no case shall the Commissioner of Health or any other entity of State government require immunization against SARSCoV-2 as a condition of attendance at a public primary or secondary school.”
“The decision to inoculate children should be left to parents, not forced on them by politicians in Trenton,” said Corrado. “Arbitrary and unjustified mandates from the Murphy Administration have already done enough harm to the state’s young people who have suffered through unnecessary school closures, mask mandates, and learning loss.”
In the past, Murphy has enacted punitive punishment for those who did not comply with state COVID-19 vaccine orders. Employees lost their jobs, unvaccinated were barred from events and treated as second class citizens.
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This bill seeks to prevent a reoccurrence of vaccine shaming and politics within the local public school districts.