KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt wrote a letter to the University of Kansas and Kansas State University asking the universities to change their COVID-19 vaccine mandates for their employees to comply with the new state law.
The law was signed by Gov. Laura Kelly last week following a special session of the Kansas Legislature. The new law allows religious exemptions for people who have a strong moral objection to the vaccine.
Schmidt's letter, dated Nov. 24, said that both the universities' religious wavier forms and their timelines for submission violate the new law.
"I am aware that the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, in particular, are in violation of a new state law as described below and must immediately cease and desist from the same," the letter said. "I request that the Board of Regents promptly review whether any further changes in policy or practice are needed to bring KU, K-State or any other Regents institution into compliance with state law or with common-sense timelines."
The attorney general called the two universities' timelines for exemption forms "arbitrary and legally unsupported."
Both universities previously set a deadline of Nov. 15 for employees to submit a religious or medical wavier, and KU required employees to be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8. Schmidt argued that making the deadline for vaccination a month before the federal mandate's deadline of Jan. 18 was not supported by the new law.
Schmidt said in the...
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