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(The Center Square) – A downstate lawmaker is calling on Illinoisans to support his legislation, called the Freedom Act, which would prohibit discrimination against those who decline to get vaccinated against COVID-19 because of their ...

Republican state Rep. Adam Niemerg filed HB 4239, which would make it unlawful for anyone, regardless of their profession, to discriminate because of a persons refusal to receive the vaccine

On November 8, 2021, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law an amendment to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act (the Act) that will…

A House bill has been introduced that would allow people to decline a COVID-19...

State lawmakers are planning an abbreviated spring legislative session with a scheduled adjournment date of April 8, nearly eight weeks earlier than usual.

The Illinois legislature has approved an amendment to the Health Care Right of Conscience Act (“HCRC”) which would limit employees’ ability to use the law to avoid workplace vaccination...

Unless you want your blood to boil, do not watch the video from last week of supporters of a bill to amend Illinois’ Health Care Right of Conscience Act (HCRCA). Dishonesty, despotism and undisguised ignorance were on full display in a move to assure compliance with vaccine and other COVID mandates.

In the past several months there has been a flurry of Executive Orders and other legally binding rules regarding vaccine mandates. Standing first and above the rest are the Executive...

A lawsuit filed by six Unit 5 employees will be transferred to McLean County from Woodford County, a judge ruled on Thursday, in the first move in a dispute between the school district and staff over vaccine mandates.

Six employees of the Unit 5 school district have filed a lawsuit in Woodford County demanding that the district change its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination and mask policies, claiming the rules violate a union agreement and an individual’s civil rights.