Virginia AG says state universities cannot mandate COVID-19 vaccine for employees, students

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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Friday that state institutions of higher education cannot require the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of students’ enrollment or in-person attendance.

can enact a statute that requires the COVID-19 vaccine for in-person school attendance, "it has not done so."

Miyares added that "although the General Assembly specifically authorized public institutions of higher education to assist the Department of Health and local health departments in the administration of the COVID-19 vaccine, the legislation did not grant such institutions power to impose vaccine requirements."The attorney general is vaccinated and has received a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and he "encourages everyone to get the vaccination.

But his opinion notes that "nowhere in the Code of Virginia does the law say that Virginia public institutions can require vaccinations as a condition of enrollment or in-person attendance."

 

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