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Senate committee approves bill creating a privacy right for COVID‑19 vaccination status
Summary
The Public Health committee advanced SB 7‑31, which would create a statutory privacy right for COVID‑19 vaccination status and a private right of action for retaliation; the Department of Health raised operational and federal‑funding concerns.
Senator Ballinger told the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that SB 7‑31 would create a right of privacy for a person’s COVID‑19 vaccination status and allow damages for retaliation similar to those available under the Arkansas Civil Rights Act. "This just creates a right of privacy for citizens that'll be recognized," Ballinger said, and added he was running the bill only as a fallback in case a separate compromise bill did not secure the emergency clause he prefers.
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