HB6423 | The Removal of the Religious Exemption to Immunization in Connecticut for Education
Written into law April 28, 2021
In 2021, Democrat State Representative Josh Elliott co-sponsored not one but TWO bills HB6423 and SB568, both aimed to remove the state's "non-medical" vaccine exemption referred to in the law as the Religious Exemption. The Legislature was bullied into passing this awful legislation right before the COVID-19 Vaccine mandate by Speaker of the House Matt Ritter, Senate President Martin Looney, and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff. Connecticut Residents Against Medical Mandates created a petition that garnered over 25,000 signatures from Connecticut residents in opposition to these bills but it wasn't enough to stop what was already a done deal for Lamont.
On April 27, 2021, HB-6423 made its way to the Senate Floor. Thousands of us protested at the Capitol that day in Hartford at the peaceful Rise Up Rally that had between 7- 8,000 in attendance. We made our best attempt to stop this tyrannical bill that removed the rights for all future mandates but it passed in a one-sided PARTISAN effort.
Lamont signed the bill into law EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY (4/28/2021) to prevent a massive increase in exemptions due to the impending COVID-19 vaccine mandate that could affect children in grades K-12 in public and private schools across Connecticut. We are demanding this bill be repealed, or reformed to include entire families and those that are now opposed to vaccines because of their sincerely held beliefs AGAINST the COVID-19 vaccine.
Legislators, like Representative Jonathan Steinberg, introduced this bill promising it had "nothing to do with COVID-19" but clearly that was all a smoke and mirrors show for COVID-19 vaccine mandates that await the thousands of children not grandfathered into the system.
On April 27, 2021, HB-6423 made its way to the Senate Floor. Thousands of us protested at the Capitol that day in Hartford at the peaceful Rise Up Rally that had between 7- 8,000 in attendance. We made our best attempt to stop this tyrannical bill that removed the rights for all future mandates but it passed in a one-sided PARTISAN effort.
Lamont signed the bill into law EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY (4/28/2021) to prevent a massive increase in exemptions due to the impending COVID-19 vaccine mandate that could affect children in grades K-12 in public and private schools across Connecticut. We are demanding this bill be repealed, or reformed to include entire families and those that are now opposed to vaccines because of their sincerely held beliefs AGAINST the COVID-19 vaccine.
Legislators, like Representative Jonathan Steinberg, introduced this bill promising it had "nothing to do with COVID-19" but clearly that was all a smoke and mirrors show for COVID-19 vaccine mandates that await the thousands of children not grandfathered into the system.
Connecticut Residents Against Medical Mandates was originally formed on Facebook in December 2020 as Connecticut Residents Against Covid19 Vaccine Mandates, since social media giants are shutting down movements like ours, in March we incorporated, changed our group name, and built this website for our Facebook following of over 17,000 members and counting!