Florida legislators are considering House and Senate civil rights bills that protect residents from discrimination based on their vaccine or immunity status.
The protection would extend to people concerning all vaccines, not just the increasingly controversial COVID shots. Senate Bill 222, sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters (R-Fla.), and House Bill 305, sponsored by Rep. Webster Barnaby (R-Fla.), are identical. This simplifies their becoming law if both pass, Mo van Hoek of Health Freedom Florida, the group pushing the bill’s adoption, told The Epoch Times.
Van Hoek said the bills would also protect Floridians’ vaccine or immunity status from being shared with the federal government’s tracking database. The state created a database to that effect in 2019, before the pandemic, and later had to share it with the federal government to receive its allotment of COVID vaccines, she said….