Relating to public health and safety, prohibiting health mandates and requirements by federal and nongovernmental health organizations, and including effective date provisions

This bill relates to public health and safety including provisions relating to mask, vaccine, or medical testing requirements and those relating to immunizations. The bill provides that the United States centers for disease control and prevention or any other federal agency, department, or official, and the world health organization or any similar multinational entity shall have no jurisdiction in Iowa, and any requirements, mandates, recommendations, instructions, or guidance provided by these entities shall not be used in this state to justify any mask, vaccine, or medical testing requirements and shall have no force or effect in Iowa. The bill prohibits the department of health and human services from requiring a person to enroll in the statewide immunization registry or otherwise submit to any form of immunization tracking; from including a person’s immunization record in any interstate or federal immunization tracking system; and for the purpose of including a person’s immunization record in any interstate or federal immunization tracking system, from allowing any person, not otherwise authorized by law, to have access to another person’s immunization record without first obtaining written informed consent for release of the record from the person who is the subject of the record or, if that person is a minor, the minor’s parent or guardian. The bill also authorizes and directs the attorney general to request orders, injunctions, and other writs as are necessary to compel compliance with the bill. The bill takes effect upon enactment.