MN HF481

Prohibits employers, businesses, health care providers, educational institutions, and government entities from discriminating against individuals who refuse vaccines, pharmaceuticals, gene editing technology, or RNA/DNA-based products for reasons of conscience or religious conviction

Protected individuals cannot be denied employment, terminated, denied services, denied access to commerce, segregated, penalized, or subjected to financial coercion based on their refusal of covered medical interventions

Applies to adults 18 and older and emancipated minors refusing biologic vaccines, drugs, gene editing technology, and RNA/DNA-based products

Creates private right of action allowing individuals to sue for injunctive relief or money damages, with prevailing plaintiffs entitled to court costs, attorney fees, and treble damages (three times actual damages) or $200 minimum

Would be codified as new Minnesota Statutes chapter 363B and prevails over conflicting general laws unless those laws specifically exempt themselves from this section