FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION!

Walt Brooks' Vaccine Passport Prohibition (HB131) is back on deck, and, with the recent (G20) worldwide push for vaccine passports, we need it!

Please contact members of the House Business and Labor Committee, by Monday at midnight! Individual emails are best. (See below for emails and meeting details.)* **

• Keep it short and sweet!
• Stay on message!

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SAMPLE EMAIL: Either use the skeleton sample alone, in your own words, OR add one other point from the talking points below, in your own words--3 sentences max. If they respond and ask for more information, you have it in the talking points and in the bill. Feel free to ask me questions.

Subject line: YES on HB131 Vaccine Passport Prohibition

Body:

Dear Representative _______,

I live in ________, Utah. I ask that you please vote YES on HB131 Vaccine Passport Prohibition, by Representative Walt Brooks. It is very important to me that this bill pass as written.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

[Your Zip Code]

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*House Business and Labor Committee Members

Rep. A. Cory Maloy (R), Chair

Rep. Stephen L. Whyte (R), Vice Chair

Rep. Carl R. Albrecht (R)

Rep. Brady Brammer (R)

Rep. Walt Brooks (R) Bill Sponsor

Rep. Jefferson S. Burton (R)

Rep. James A. Dunnigan (R)

Rep. Brian S. King (D)

Rep. Ashlee Matthews (D)

Rep. Jon Hawkins (R)

Rep. Calvin R. Musselman (R)

Rep. Thomas W. Peterson (R)

Rep. Mike Schultz (R)

Rep. Norman K Thurston (R)

Rep. Ryan D. Wilcox (R)

corymaloy@le.utah.gov

swhyte@le.utah.gov

carlalbrecht@le.utah.gov

bbrammer@le.utah.gov

wbrooks@le.utah.gov

jburton@le.utah.gov

jdunnigan@le.utah.gov

amatthews@le.utah.gov

briansking@le.utah.gov

jhawkins@le.utah.gov

cmusselman@le.utah.gov

tpeterson@le.utah.gov

mikeschultz@le.utah.gov

normthurston@le.utah.gov

ryanwilcox@le.utah.gov

Additional talking points

If you want to say something more substantial please use the talking points below to craft your own message. It is critical that we stay on message, stay brief, and use our own words. Thank you!

Utah Needs a Vaccine Passport Ban!

HB131, Vaccine Passport Prohibition, Walt Brooks

This bill prohibits the use of health passports in the State of Utah. With the recent (G20) worldwide push for vaccine passports, we need it now. The time to protect Utahns is before it’s too late.

Does this legislation create a “protected class”? No. It protects every individual, as the Constitution requires. Article IV, Section 4 requires that each state’s government be a republic, protecting each individual’s rights. The 9th Amendment reads “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people” –another Constitutional guarantee of personal freedom. 

Does the market actually get to decide? No. Ours is no longer a true free market system. Lines between government, private business, and corporations are blurred. Many Utah businesses have loans from major banks, and there are numerous public private partnerships in Utah. Grocery stores are not independent, but are instead beholden to larger corporations and the supply chain. During COVID, businesses were subjected to health department and corporate tyranny. They were threatened, surveilled, fined, and cowed into submission. 

Should private medical information remain private? Yes. Data is the new currency, and medical data is gold. Governments and corporations are incentivized to retrieve and use that data. It is inconsistent to say that businesses have a right to collect the data for discriminatory purposes, but that they don’t have a right to use the data after they collected it. Why not just prevent it from being collected in the first place?

Does this bill protect businesses? Yes. Business owners will incur no cost or administrative impact because of it, nor are they required to take any action. It protects them from responsibility to track personal health data and from liability for potential injury. It would be disingenuous to not support this on grounds that it “regulates business.” If regulation of business were the problem, then every form of business regulation should be removed.

Are businesses still free to recommend? Yes. Businesses may still recommend vaccination, put up barriers, social distance, test, work remotely, etc, if they so choose.

Do business rights supersede individual rights? People have God-given rights, while businesses have powers granted to them by people and governments. Business powers do not supersede God-given individual rights. 

What are vaccine passports really about? They are about controlling access of individuals to employment, and to the marketplace, which is controlled by government, monopoly forces, and public private partnerships, aka ESG and social credit scores. If vaccines are mandated, a vaccine passport will apply to you and each member of your family. If you were to decline a single booster, you would not qualify, and your access to both employment and to the marketplace would be curtailed. 

Can highly specialized employees in professional settings simply “work elsewhere”? Should people lose years of training, seniority, & pensions because a company wants to interfere with their personal medical decisions, in violation of HIPAA?

Could business owners be liable for adverse reactions to vaccines they require? Under the PREP Act, only government and vaccine manufacturers/distributors are exempt from liability associated with adverse reactions. Private business owners are not exempt. Passing HB131 would protect businesses from liability for possible adverse reactions, while still allowing them to recommend vaccination.

Is communicable disease a workplace-specific hazard? No.Prior to 2020, business owners were never required to mitigate hazards that exist everywhere. The OSHA ETS set a terrible precedent, as did all of the health department requirements imposed during the past two years. Now that the precedent has been set, the legislature has an obligation to pass protective legislation.

Do free societies require citizens to show papers? No. A society that requires “showing your papers” as a condition of engaging, as a patron, an employee, or a business owner is not free. There’s no free enterprise, unless the society itself is free.

Should businesses be "free" to discriminate through medical apartheid? No. Businesses cannot employ young children, or abuse employees, nor is it moral. Yet some posit that businesses have the right to require their employees and patrons to prove that they have injected a substance into their bodies. This puts businesses in the crosshairs of Utah’s strict medical coercion laws (Utah Code 26-1-33). HB131 removes that danger, allowing businesses to recommend vaccines, without requiring them as a condition for employment or commerce.

Utah needs to protect both its citizens and its businesses. Please vote YES on HB131!

**Join Us! House Business and Labor Committee, Tuesday, 1.24.2023, 2:00 PM, Room 445, State Capitol, 4th Floor. Listen at le.utah.gov. Learn how to participate virtually here. (Find us to get talking points, if you're there in person.)

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