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House GOP's top 2022 priority is stopping COVID-19 vaccine mandates

89.1 WBOI | By Brandon Smith
Published December 1, 2021 at 5:06 PM EST
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Fifty-six members of the House GOP caucus signed on to a reintroduced bill that would effectively ban private companies from enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Indiana House Republicans have revealed their top priority for the 2022 legislative session. The House GOP caucus's 56 members signed on to a reintroduced bill that would effectively ban private companies from enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Republicans initially planned to pass their bill this week, suspending all rules to approve the bill in a single day session. But the state’s top business and health care organizations loudly objected, prompting Republicans to back down.

READ MORE: GOP backs off plan to pass COVID-19 vaccine mandate restrictions in single-day session
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Brandon Smith
Brandon Smith is excited to be working for public radio in Indiana. He has previously worked in public radio as a reporter and anchor in mid-Missouri for KBIA Radio out of Columbia. Prior to that, he worked for WSPY Radio in Plano, Illinois as a show host, reporter, producer and anchor. His first job in radio was in another state capitol, in Jefferson City, Missouri, as a reporter for three radio stations around Missouri. Brandon graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2010, with minors in political science and history. He was born and raised in Chicago.
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