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DeSantis Suspends Local COVID-19 Emergency Orders, Bans Vaccine Passports
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning COVID-19 vaccine passports and also announced an executive order that suspends all local pandemic emergency mandates effective July 1.DeSantis signed Senate Bill 2006, passed by Florida state politicians last month granting DeSantis the ability to override local emergency orders. The bill also includes a ban on vaccine passports that would levy fines of $5,000 per violation. "I’m going to sign the bill. It’s effective July 1. I’ll also sign an executive order pursuant to that bill invalidating all remaining local emergency COVID orders effective on July 1," the Republican governor said in a news conference in St. Petersburg on Monday. "But then, to bridge the gap between then and now, I’m going to suspend, under my executive power, the local emergency orders as it relates to COVID." Related: Ron DeSantis: 2021-05-02 DeSantis: Claiming Systemic Racism in America a 'Bunch of Horse Manure' Ron DeSantis: 2021-04-25 MSNBC's Joy Reid: Gov. DeSantis Is the 'Modern-Day George Wallace' Ron DeSantis: 2021-04-23 Superintendent lied to jury investigating massacre Posted by: Fred 2021-05-05 |
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