Indiana legislators are planning to make clear that a ban on COVID-19 “immunization passports” applies to public schools, charter schools and state colleges and universities.
The language is part of draft legislation scheduled for discussion this morning by the House and Senate Rules and Legislative Procedures committees. Lawmakers plan to pass the bill in a one-day session Nov. 29 to bring Indiana’s public health emergency to an end.
The legislature hurriedly adopted a ban on immunization passports last spring, but it wasn’t clear if even they knew what it meant or whom it applied to. The bill said the ban covered any “state or local unit” of government. That could have arguably meant public school corporations, but it almost certainly didn’t mean state universities, based on definitions in state law. Charter schools? Who knows?
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