DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa could soon have a ban on vaccine passports.
The state legislature is heading into its final scheduled week with a committee set to take up the issue.
Governor Kim Reynolds has said she's against any requirement for people to report vaccinations and would block any requirement through the legislature or an executive order. Reynolds said earlier this month that a passport system would create a "two-tiered society" and raise privacy concerns.
The effort to ban vaccine passports is being led by the Republican majority, and would become law as soon as Governor Reynolds signed it.
The bill in the House Judiciary Committee prohibits the state or any local government from creating an identification card the includes COVID-19 vaccinations.
It would ban state and local governments as well as businesses from requiring anyone entering a premises to provide proof of having received a vaccination for COVID-19.
The bill does not prohibit a business or governmental entity from implementing a COVID-19 screening protocol that does not require proof of vaccination. It also make exceptions for health care facilities to require vaccine information.
Some businesses, including airlines and cruises lines have expressed an interest in requiring people to prove they've been vaccinated.
Lawmakers could work beyond the final scheduled day of their session Friday, and have yet to finalize a required state budget that will go into effect in July.
The bill to ban vaccine passports is sponsored by House Majority Leader Matt Windschitl, R-Missouri Valley.