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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
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa officials would no longer be allowed to enforce federal safety rules that require employers to check if workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19. It also stops the state from requiring businesses to ask employees about their COVID-19 test results or whether they have ever had the virus. These changes affect both current employees and people applying for new jobs.1
Read the official explanation
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. On January 17, 2023 it recommended passage. [].
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
10 written public comments to its subcommittee: January 17, 2023 (10) · on the Legislature’s site
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- SF 2012 Prohibiting the labor commissioner from implementing, enforcing, or conforming to certain …89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
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