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Arkansas Governor Allows Bill Requiring Vaccine Opt-Outs to Become Law
Epoch Times ^
| 10/13/2021
| Ivan Pantchoukov
Posted on 10/13/2021 9:33:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Oct. 13 allowed a new law to go into effect that will allow employees to opt-out of vaccine mandates by proving they have acquired immunity to the CCP virus or by submitting a negative COVID-19 test.
The bill became law without Hutchinson’s signature under a provision in Arkansas law which makes bills awaiting a governor’s signature to become law after five days. Governors have previously used this legal mechanism to express their disapproval of certain legislation, according to The Associated Press.
“I am opposed to the current mandate by the Biden administration, but the solution is not to place additional mandates on employers at the state government level,” Hutchinson said on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.
“The solution is not to put employers in a squeeze play between state and federal law,” the Arkansas governor said, according to The Hill. “Employers need the freedom to protect their employees and their customers, and government should not interfere with that freedom through mandates.”
President Joe Biden directed the federal government to adopt a rule requiring private companies with more than 100 employees to vaccinate their workforce.
The language of the Arkansas bill (pdf) says that it was created to address the federal vaccine mandate. The law requires employers who impose vaccine mandates to create a process for exemption requests.
Hutchinson said the amount of time before the opt-out law takes effect gives the state more time to weigh its impact on businesses and for any court challenges to be filed.
But he also called the proposal unnecessary and counterproductive.
“The debate on these bills has been harmful to our goal of increasing vaccination rates in Arkansas,” he told reporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: arkansas; asahutchinson; covid; vaccine
To: SeekAndFind
Not good enough, should be unconditional opt-out. Fail.
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posted on
10/13/2021 9:35:27 PM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
To: SeekAndFind
This guy has proven he is a Bush League Republican before this.
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posted on
10/13/2021 9:37:53 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA
Oh here, someone posted it. Didn’t veto but isn’t gonna sign it. Total swine, this jerk.
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posted on
10/13/2021 9:41:46 PM PDT
by
Impy
("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
To: SeekAndFind
The useless GOP governor whines about “The solution is not to put employers in a squeeze play between state and federal law,” so he doesn’t seem to care about all the people being forced to vaccinate.
Want a GOPe ass.
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posted on
10/13/2021 9:43:11 PM PDT
by
WMarshal
("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
To: SeekAndFind
It’s still fascist. It’s still a mandate.
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posted on
10/13/2021 10:30:44 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
To: P-Marlowe
One Month After Biden Announced his Federal Vaccine Mandate!
It Still Has Not Been Formally Issued!
Trending Politics ^ | October 10, 202 | Kyle Becker Posted on 10/10/2021, 4:38:07 PM by Norski
One month after the Biden administration announced a draconian federal vaccine mandate that impacted an estimated 100 million Americans and led to mass firings of public servants, teachers, and medical workers, the federal regulation still has not been formally issued.
The Federalist reported . . in a post on Thursday that noted, “Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Doesn’t Exist. It’s Just A Press Release”:
Biden’s so-called vaccine mandate doesn’t exist — at least, not yet. So far, all we have is his press conference. No such rule even claiming to be legally binding has been issued yet.
That’s why nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general who have publicly voiced their opposition to the clearly unconstitutional and illegal mandate haven’t yet filed suit against it, the Office of the Indiana Attorney General confirmed for me. There is no mandate to haul into court. And that may be part of the plan.
According to several sources, so far it appears no such mandate has been sent to the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs yet for approval. The White House, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Department of Labor haven’t released any official guidance for the alleged mandate.
There is no executive order. There’s nothing but press statements.
Despite what you may have been . . . led to believe by the media, . . . press releases/statements have exactly zero legal authority.
“There is nothing there yet that gives employers any mandate,” Stephanie McFarland, spokeswoman for the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration, told The Federalist’s Joy Pullman on Oct. 6. “The president made an announcement on this asking OSHA to do it, but we’ve not yet seen anything come from it yet,”. When the state agency gets any further information, she said, they’ll review it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at trendingpolitics.com …
https://trendingpolitics.com/one-month-after-biden-announced-federal-vaccine-mandate-it-still-has-not-been-formally-issued-knab/?utm_source=whatfinger
8 posted on 10/12/2021 3:35:00 PM by Grampa Dave (Lockdowns will go down as one of the greatest peacetime policy failures in modern history! Cui bono?)
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posted on
10/13/2021 11:37:31 PM PDT
by
Norski
(Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. - Thomas Mann)
To: \/\/ayne
Not good enough, should be unconditional opt-out. Fail Came here to say the same thing. Anything short of a mandate ban is insufficient. I don't give a damn about the vaccine, it's efficacy, or the money. I care about my freedom to say, "No." Having to submit to a test is no different. I shouldn't have to prove a damn thing.
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posted on
10/14/2021 3:48:15 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
To: SeekAndFind
In other words, your employer owns your body.
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posted on
10/14/2021 3:57:32 AM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(When government fears the people, there is liberty. )
To: SeekAndFind
Simplest solution, but no one is saying it.
“If you are vaccinated, no one can give you COVID. Lighten up Karen.”
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posted on
10/14/2021 5:16:50 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; LS; NFHale
Let me post this here as well (it’s a more closely related thread):
Personally, I don’t like the congressional redistricting map approved by the Arkansas legislature. It splits Little Rock’s Pulaski County three ways while improving the GOP vote percentage in the AR-02 only marginally. Hutchinson had warned against splitting Pulaski three ways and presumably doesn’t want his name attached to such plan. What AR Republicans should have done is attach Pulaski to the most heavily Republican suburban and rural counties in the vicinity and in the northern tier of the state (avoiding, e.g., Faulkner County), which would have improved the Trump percentage in the AR-02 by much more than in the approved plan while eliminating the argument that Republicans “split Little Rock three ways to dilute the black vote.” The AR-02 is not a VRA district, and I don’t believe that the Pulaski precincts placed in adjoining CDs are heavily black (or even within the Little Rock city limits), but I consider the new AR congressional map both a missed opportunity and an unforced error.
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posted on
10/14/2021 7:44:44 AM PDT
by
AuH2ORepublican
(If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
To: SeekAndFind
“I am opposed to the current mandate by the Biden administration, but the solution is not to place additional mandates on employers at the state government level,” Hutchinson said on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. In other words - the workers can be burdened as much as anyone wants, but the business cannot.
Tone deaf. Completely tone deaf.
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posted on
10/14/2021 7:47:58 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
To: Lurkinanloomin
This guy has proven he is a Bush League Republican before this. Another one of the Clinton impeachment managers, like DeWine, Lindsay Graham, etc.
To: Golden Eagle
DeWine wasn’t an impeachment manager; Chabot was the one from OH.
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:43:28 AM PDT
by
AuH2ORepublican
(If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
To: SeekAndFind
The Hutchinson Brothers are both wimps.
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posted on
10/14/2021 11:03:11 AM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
To: AuH2ORepublican
That is what assistant Dems do.
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posted on
10/14/2021 11:05:21 AM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
To: AuH2ORepublican
Thanks for the correction. Apparently he was one of the most visible leaders of the Senate Judiciary committee which is why I remember his name from it so much.
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