SB 246 Kentucky Senate · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to conditions of employment.

Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or medical contraindication; provide sample form for employee affirmation; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations and a claim under workers' compensation; amend KRS 344.040 to make it an unlawful practice for employers to require immunizations as a condition of employment from employees who hold sincere religious beliefs against immunization or for whom immunization would be harmful to his or her health; make technical corrections.
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Feb 2025
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Introduced Feb 18, 2025 Last action Feb 20, 2025
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Feb 20, 2025
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Feb 18, 2025
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Feb 18, 2025
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