Their COVID-19 bill includes immunity from liability for businesses violating pandemic restrictions. //end headline wrapper ?>Sen. Devin LeMahieu. File photo by Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch
The stripped down state Senate COVID-19 response bill that was given a public hearing on Monday has shed many of the controversial provisions from the Assembly version that passed the lower house last week.
Gone are bans on mandatory vaccines for employment, required school board supermajority votes to convene virtually, prohibitions against closing houses of worship and other provisions that could cripple public health officials’ authority.
What remains are mostly common-sense measures that were in the first COVID-19 bill that the Legislature passed last April and Gov.