In today’s meeting, the Arkansas Legislative Council neither approved nor denied the UAMS and DHS requests to mandate the vaccine. Instead, they asked the state agencies to wait a few weeks to see if the multiple court cases are successful in having the CMS mandate stayed. They also asked, and UAMS specifically agreed, to back off issuing mandates and to broadly collect and accept religious and medical exemptions. DHS was a bit less agreeable, stating that it could take a lawyer up to four hours per exemption to review. The ALC did pass a resolution supporting / directing the AG’s office to file comments in the CMS rulemaking and otherwise take action on behalf of Arkansas to shut down the unconstitutional vaccine mandate. They also agreed to consider an Act 608 request from Senator Garner to formally review the constitutionality of the Biden mandate (see below); it was referred to public health.
Senator Garner’s request:
Senator Irvin’s resolution, which was passed:
Four hours to review? Is the attorney incompetent?
No, they are looking for reasons to deny. Some of our patriot senators set him straight, though. It will not be enforced.
UAMS did not back off issuing mandates. They are still requiring the first vaccine shot by Dec 4.
This is a reminder that UAMS continues to adhere to federal requirements for COVID vaccination despite the ongoing debate and challenges to this requirement.
This is copied and pasted form an email to all unvaccinated UAMS employees. Shows they are not backing down from their vaccine mandate.