AB23: Text as Enrolled

  Date of enactment:
2021 Assembly Bill 23   Date of publication*:

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2021 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to create 252.02 (5m) and 252.03 (2m) of the statutes; relating to: prohibiting certain government officials from mandating vaccination against the 2019 novel coronavirus.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB23,1 Section 1 . 252.02 (5m) of the statutes is created to read:

252.02 (5m) Notwithstanding sub. (6) and s. 252.041, the department may not require individuals to receive a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, or any variant or virus derived as a mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

AB23,2 Section 2 . 252.03 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:

252.03 (2m) Notwithstanding sub. (2), a local health officer may not require individuals to receive a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, or any variant or virus derived as a mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.