{"id":"SEC-01-081","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Montana","state":"MT","metro":"","industry":"01","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Montana Legislature (Governor Greg Gianforte signed)","authority":"Mont. Code Ann. 49-2-312, -313 (as enacted)","instrument":"House Bill 702 (2021)","title":"An Act Prohibiting Discrimination Based on a Person\u0027s Vaccination Status or Possession of an Immunity Passport","dateIssued":"2021-05-07","effective":"2021-05-07","end":"Held preempted/unconstitutional as applied to health care settings (Montana Medical Ass\u0027n v. Knudsen, D. Mont. Dec. 9, 2022); reversed in part (9th Cir. 2024)","startDate":"2021-05-07","endDate":"2022-12-09","quarters":["2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["VAX","EMP","OTHER"],"addressees":["employers including health care facilities; places of public accommodation; governmental entities"],"clause":"Section 1. Discrimination based on vaccination status or possession of immunity passport prohibited -- definitions. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for:... (b) an employer to refuse employment to a person, to bar a person from employment, or to [discriminate] against a person based on the person\u0027s vaccination status or whether the person has an immunity passport.","enforcement":"Montana Human Rights Act remedies","functions":["HR (hospitals barred from conditioning employment on vaccination)","WF","IC","VS"],"notes":"The only State statute that barred private hospitals from staff vaccination mandates in Q3 2021 (a health-care-facility accommodation clause required reasonable accommodation measures instead).","sourceUrl":"https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billpdf/HB0702.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20210514004411/https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2021/billpdf/HB0702.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":97522,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-01","url":"/library/SEC-01-081","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-01-081","citation":"Montana Legislature (Governor Greg Gianforte signed), House Bill 702 (2021) (May 7, 2021) (Ex. SEC-01-081)","stateName":"Montana","related":[]}