Missouri lawmakers move to ban vaccine passports -- but what are they?

[TexasTowelie]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers took the first step to ban so-called vaccine passports for travel this week.

An amendment attached to a transportation bill from Sen. Lincoln Hough prohibits Missouri organizations from requiring COVID-19 vaccine documentation in order to access transportation systems, such as on airplanes, buses, cabs, or trains. The amendment was adopted along party lines, and the bill was later perfected and sits on the calendar for third reading.

Members of the Senate Conservative Caucus celebrated the inclusion of the amendment on the bill.

“[T]here are few more un-American ideas than denying the free movement, assembly, and speech of American citizens based on their status in one class or another (in this case, vaccinated or not vaccinated). The continued politicization of the COVID environment has led to a rise in folks (mainly government) finding new ways to infringe upon your rights,” Sen. Bill Eigel, who offered the amendment, said on social media. “The ‘vaccination passport’ is just the latest in the line of bad ideas!”

Read more: https://themissouritimes.com/missouri-lawmakers-move-to-ban-vaccine-passports-but-what-are-they/