ACTION: Urge Governor, Senate to amend COVID vaccine passport bill or kill it! Bill must actually ban vaccine passports!

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Currently has passed the house without amendments, heading to the senate for a full floor vote.

This bill doesn’t ban passports. It merely prevents the state government from issuing one.
– It does ban government entities from utilizing them.
– It does allow Private businesses and health care facilities to still be able to use them.
– It does remove eligibility for state grants and funding for private businesses if they do.
– It does not apply to health care facilities in any capacity, they are fully exempt and they may use their version of vaccine passports if they wish.

If leadership is unwilling to amend the bill than the bill needs to die so that we don’t legalize the medical industry being allowed to infringe on privacy and discriminate against citizens seeking treatment or visiting a loved one. Codifying that is a bigger threat than vaccine passports as it could set the precedence for future laws or be utilized against Iowans who wish to sue these facilities for violating their medical, religious, or privacy rights.

Call/email and tell them:

–Kill the bill if it cannot be amended.
The legislative intent for the medical exception is undefined and therefore incredibly dangerous for unintended court precedents, legalizing discrimination in our state.

Or, amend the bill to:
-remove medical exception
-protect employees (like Montana is in the process of doing)
– Share how this could impact your access to healthcare facilities or employment, share any experience you have getting kicked out of health clinics for the vaccine schedule already. Discrimination is not unusual in medical clinics, this will just codify it.

Call the Governor’s office daily:

(515-281-5211)

Call Senator Whitver daily:

(515-281-3371)

Email the full Senate daily:
zach.whiting@legis.iowa.gov
jeff.taylor@legis.iowa.gov
jim.carlin@legis.iowa.gov
dennis.guth@legis.iowa.gov
tim.kraayenbrink@legis.iowa.gov
craig.williams@legis.iowa.gov
jackie.smith@legis.iowa.gov
dan.dawson@legis.iowa.gov
jason.schultz@legis.iowa.gov
jake.chapman@legis.iowa.gov
tom.shipley@legis.iowa.gov
mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov
julian.garrett@legis.iowa.gov
amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov
zach.nunn@legis.iowa.gov
nate.boulton@legis.iowa.gov
tony.bisignano@legis.iowa.gov
janet.petersen@legis.iowa.gov
jack.whitver@legis.iowa.gov
brad.zaun@legis.iowa.gov
claire.celsi@legis.iowa.gov
sarah.trone.garriott@legis.iowa.gov
herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov
jesse.green@legis.iowa.gov
annette.sweeney@legis.iowa.gov
waylon.brown@legis.iowa.gov
amanda.ragan@legis.iowa.gov
mike.klimesh@legis.iowa.gov
carrie.koelker@legis.iowa.gov
bill.dotzler@legis.iowa.gov
craig.johnson@legis.iowa.gov
rob.hogg@legis.iowa.gov
liz.mathis@legis.iowa.gov
todd.taylor@legis.iowa.gov
jeff.edler@legis.iowa.gov
zach.wahls@legis.iowa.gov
dawn.driscoll@legis.iowa.gov
kevin.kinney@legis.iowa.gov
ken.rozenboom@legis.iowa.gov
jeff.reichman@legis.iowa.gov
joe.bolkcom@legis.iowa.gov
tim.goodwin@legis.iowa.gov
jim.lykam@legis.iowa.gov
mark.lofgren@legis.iowa.gov
roby.smith@legis.iowa.gov
dan.zumbach@legis.iowa.gov
Chris.Cournoyer@legis.iowa.gov
pam.jochum@legis.iowa.gov
Eric.Giddens@legis.iowa.gov
adrian.dickey@legis.iowa.gov

Author: Informed Choice Iowa