Republican Lawmakers cancel one-day session after backlash to COVID vaccine mandate bill

Republican legislative leaders announced they are canceling their one-day legislative session originally planned for Monday after fierce backlash to their proposal to severely limit private companies' abilities to mandate vaccines.

That proposed draft bill also would have enabled Gov. Eric Holcomb to end Indiana's public health emergency while still permitting the state to keep in place federal funding and certain protective measures, such as allowing for the vaccination of children ages 5 to 11 outside of a doctor's office.

Without those change, Holcomb announced Wednesday that he will extend the state public health emergency for another 30 days, adding that he'll continue to work with House Speaker Todd Huston and Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray so that he can end the emergency in the future.

Huston and Bray said in statements that they now plan to address concerns about vaccine mandates and the necessary Indiana law changes needed to end the state emergency when lawmakers reconvene for the regular session in January.

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