Tennessee Senate Passes Bill That Would Ban ‘Vaccine Passports’ - Third State To Do So after Florida and Texas Executive Order Bans

Epoch Times ^ | 04/14/2021 | Samuel Allegri

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The Tennessee Senate passed a bill that aims to ban so-called “vaccine passports” on a state level.

The legislation would also take away public health powers from county boards of health.

The bill, named SB0858/HB0575, is sponsored by state Sen. Janice Bowling and state Rep. John Ragan, both Republican.

If the bill makes it through the state House, it will depend on the governor to sign it into law.

Tennessee’s Republican Governor Bill Lee expressed his disapproval for vaccine passports earlier this month on Twitter.

“I oppose vaccine passports. The COVID-19 vaccine should be a personal health choice, not a government requirement,” Lee said.

“I am supporting legislation to prohibit any government-mandated vaccine passports to protect the privacy of Tennesseans’ health information and ensure this vaccine remains a voluntary, personal decision,” he added.

The move comes after the Governors of Florida and Texas signed executive orders for the same reason.

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Actually, this report is a little dated by a few hours.

MONTANA’s Governor Greg Gianforte just banned Vaccine Passports a few hours ago. See here:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/gov-greg-gianforte-bans-vaccine-passports-for-montana_3775561.html

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Janice is the state senator for our district and I’ve known her for several years. She’s been on the right side of these issues with mask and vaccine mandates.
This will pass the state House, no problem, and I doubt the Governor will balk at signing it.

[dadfly]

good. the globalist’s new “mark” must be stopped.

[eyeamok]

Sounds like a pretty weak law, if they truly mean to STOP the stupid vaccine passport/verification, they really need to take a piece of Federal Law, add Monetary Penalties in Small Claims Court and let the chips fall. My Idea would be:

Any person that has been asked to, or required to, provide any medical records for any reason other than immediate Treatment of a Medical Condition, shall be Entitled to the Maximum Monetary Award available in Civil Small Claims Court.