Proposed law provides for immunity from civil liability from damages resulting from exposure to infections disease or acts undertaken in an effort to respond to a declared state of emergency or public health emergency related to an infectious disease. Proposed law prohibits causes of action related to the contraction of an infectious disease at a public and charter school facility, bus, or event and at a public postsecondary education facility or event based on the actions or failure to act of school agents.
What’s it like to live in a Republican-controlled state, you ask? It’s the legislature creating legislation that insulates schools and school districts from liability if they fail to act to keep students safe during a pandemic.
Now, mind you they could be earmarking funds to ensure that there is a gross of sanitizing supplies and air purifiers for each class in the state, yet here we are.
