GOP Rep. Introduces Bill Banning Private Businesses From Using COVID-19 ‘Vaccine Passports’

A member of staff poses with a phial of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination health centre on the first day of the largest immunisation programme in the UK's history in Cardiff, United Kingdom on Dec. 8, 2020. Justin Tallis/Getty Images

A Republican House lawmaker has introduced a proposal that would ban private businesses from requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination for employees, describing such a demand as an affront to civil liberties.

“They’re not really providing a rational basis for discriminatory activity—they’re busy separating healthy people from other healthy people on the presumption that people without a vaccine are not healthy,” Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) said in an interview with Fox News in announcing the measure. “It’s a violation of civil liberties.”