WEST virginia legislature

2023 regular session

Introduced

Senate Joint Resolution 9

By Senators Grady, Barrett, Chapman, Deeds, Hunt, Karnes, Martin, Maynard, Phillips, Roberts, Rucker, Tarr, Swope, Smith, Taylor, and Stuart   

[Introduced January 27, 2023; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance]

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, article III thereof, by adding thereto a new section, designated 23, relating to ensuring the right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, vaccine, or prophylactic to not be questioned or interfered with in any manner; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:

That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to the voters of the state at the next general election to be held in the year 2024, which proposed amendment is that article III thereof be amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated 23, to read as follows:

Article III.

23.  Right to medical freedom.

"The right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, vaccine, or prophylactic shall not be questioned or interfered with in any manner. Equality of rights under the law or in the realm of public accommodation shall not be denied or abridged to any person in this State because of the exercise of the right under this section".

Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, such amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment 1" and designated as the "Right to medical freedom amendment" and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "Ensuring the right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, vaccine, or prophylactic to not be questioned or interfered with in any manner".

NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to ensure the right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, treatment, injection, device, vaccine, or prophylactic to not be questioned or interfered with in any manner.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.