SC Senate Passes Legislation that Bans Covid-19 Vaccine

The South Carolina Senate passed a bill (https://bit.ly/3E2N6do)
on Wednesday prohibiting businesses from refusing to serve
unvaccinated people and preventing government employees, first
responders, and students from taking the Covid-19 shot.
South Carolina Senate passed the bill with 29-12 votes. Not a single
Democrat in the Senate voted for the revised bill, according to the
State report.
Last December, SC Republican House leaders voted to ban Covid-19
vaccines for state and local government employees, contractors, and
public school students.
AP reported (https://bit.ly/3raTtWL):
The Senate approved the bill 29-12 on Wednesday. Senators made
changes to a House bill which that chamber passed in December,
meaning the proposal returns to the House to see if it accepts those
changes.
Senators initially put in a large unemployment tax penalty for
private businesses that fired unvaccinated workers. But instead they
compromised to allow fired workers to collect unemployment
benefits, retroactive to the last nine months.
Opponents of the Republican-backed bill questioned why a group
that typically says government shouldn’t tell businesses what to do
is taking up this fight.
Supporters of the bill said they were trying to protect the choice of
people who don’t want to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The proposal bans state and local governments and public schools
from requiring vaccines for their employers, contractors or students
and also says first responders can’t be fired for refusing a COVID-19
shot.
The House can either agree to the Senate’s changes, sending the bill
to Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk, or insist on its version of the bill,
meaning a small group of House members and senators will have to
work on a compromise between the two versions.