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I don’t recall the LDH or JBE doing that.

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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry tweeted out a statement in support of the committee’s vote on Monday.

“I applaud the Legislature, who just voted in bipartisan manner and in agreement with our legal advice that COVID-19 is not a ‘vaccine preventable’ disease’ and that the executive actions of LDH went beyond their statutory authority. We also want to thank the hundreds of Louisianans who came to the Capitol today and had their voices heard. These types of policies should be decided by the people through their representatives not by medical czars or by executive fiat. We challenge the Governor [Edwards] to accept the will of the people,” Landry said in a statement.

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Gov. John Bel Edwards notified state lawmakers Tuesday that the Louisiana Department of Health will move forward with adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of shots required for students to attend schools and universities, overriding the Legislature's attempt to block the new regulation.

The rule will go into effect beginning with the 2022-23 school year and will only apply to age groups that are fully authorized by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to receive the jab. At the moment, that includes those age 16 and up, though younger age groups will be added as full approval is granted.

A bipartisan panel of state lawmakers voted 13-2 last week to reject Edwards' proposed rule, though Louisiana's rulemaking statutes give the governor the final say on whether to add a vaccine to the state schedule. As expected, the Democratic governor sent a letter to the House Committee on Health and Welfare Tuesday notifying them that he intended to override their decision.

"I am allowing this rule to go into effect because it will save lives and will help Louisiana to emerge from this pandemic," Edwards wrote to state Rep. Larry Bagley, the Stonewall Republican who chairs the House health committee.

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