SF 45: Prohibiting the labor commissioner from implementing, enforcing, or conforming to certain federal occupational safety and health standards relating to COVID-19 and including effective date provisions

What it does

This bill prohibits the labor commissioner from implementing, enforcing, or conforming to any federal occupational safety and health standard relating to COVID-19 that would require an employer to carry out certain actions relating to COVID-19. The actions are determining whether or not an employee or prospective employee has received a COVID-19 vaccine, determining whether or not an employee or prospective employee has received a test for current or past COVID-19 infection or inquiring about the results of such a test, or conducting a test to determine whether or not an employee or prospective employee has or has ever had a COVID-19 infection. The bill takes effect upon enactment.

Senate subcommittee · named January 12, 2023

• Sen. Dennis Guth (R) · dennis.guth@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. William A. Dotzler Jr. (D) · bill.dotzler@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Tim Kraayenbrink (R) · tim.kraayenbrink@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 1 for, 8 against

For: Informed Choice Iowa

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; Common Good Iowa; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Iowa State Bar Association; Iowa State Building and Construction Trades; Laborers International Union of North America

In plain words

1. January 11, 2023Filed in the Senate and sent to the Workforce committee
2. January 12, 2023Senate subcommittee named: Guth, Dotzler and Kraayenbrink
3. January 17, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it