LD871 • 2025

An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements

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Sponsor: Representative Marygrace Cimino
Last action: 2025-04-08
Official status: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements

An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements Sponsor: Representative Marygrace Cimino Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements Sponsor: Representative Marygrace Cimino Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

2025-04-08 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-04-07 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP
2025-04-02 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-04-02 Committee
Voted; ONTP
2025-03-21 House
Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.
2025-03-04 Committee
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements
Sponsor:
Representative Marygrace Cimino
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 871
H.P. 557 House of Representatives, March 4, 2025
An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and
Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine
Requirements
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative CIMINO of Bridgton.
Cosponsored by Representatives: FLYNN of Albion, FOSTER of Dexter, MCINTYRE of
Lowell, Senator: BENNETT of Oxford.

Page 1 - 132LR1386(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §30 is enacted to read:
3§30. Prohibition on COVID-19 vaccination
4 A department, agency, official, agent or employee of the State may not require a person
5 to receive a vaccine designed to increase an individual's immunity against or prevent
6 coronavirus disease 2019, also known as COVID-19.
7Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §802, sub-§4-B, ¶D is enacted to read:
8 D. An individual may not be required to receive a vaccine designed to increase an
9 individual's immunity against or prevent coronavirus disease 2019, also known as
10 COVID-19.
11Sec. 3. 32 MRSA §84-B is enacted to read:
12§84-B. Prohibition on COVID-19 vaccination
13 The board or commissioner may not require a person licensed under this chapter to
14 receive a vaccine designed to increase an individual's immunity against or prevent
15 coronavirus disease 2019, also known as COVID-19.
16SUMMARY
17 This bill prohibits the State from requiring any person, including health care facility
18 employees and emergency medical services personnel, to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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