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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 622: Relating to COVID-19 vaccination requirements by employers and unemployment insurance and including effective date provisions

Died when the session ended · The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill provides that an employer that requires an employee, including an applicant for employment, to receive a COVID-19 vaccine must waive the requirement if the employee, or, if the employee is a minor, the employee’s parent or legal guardian, requests a waiver and makes either of two submissions to the employer. The first submission is a statement that receiving the vaccine would be injurious to the health and well-being of the employee or an individual residing with the employee. The second submission is a statement that receiving the vaccine would conflict with the tenets and practices of a religion of which the employee is an adherent or member.

Sponsors

Commerce (companion To Hf 902 By Committee on State Government) committee

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 2 for, 2 against

For: Board of Regents, State of Iowa; Personal Interest-Sarah Abdouch

Against: Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); LeadingAge Iowa

In plain words

  1. October 28, 2021Filed in the Senate
  2. October 28, 2021Approved by the Senate committee
  3. October 28, 2021Withdrawn

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF622