The Iowa Senate Education Committee moved ahead legislation Wednesday requiring private colleges and universities to create accommodations for unvaccinated students in health-care degree programs requiring clinical rotations.
As the first funnel of the legislative session draws closer, the panel also moved a number of bills covering secondary and higher education in reporting requirements, course numbering, data reports and more.
Each of the bills passed out of the committee and will head to the Iowa Senate floor for debate. Most bills not passed through one chamber’s committee by the end of this week are declared dead for the session, with several exceptions.
Higher education
Vaccinations: Senate File 2095 would require private colleges and universities offering degree programs with clinical rotations to, if requested by a student, find a rotation placement where that student would be exempt from any vaccination requirements put in place by that placement during their time in the rotation.
As defined in the bill, a clinical rotation is “a period of training completed for academic credit by a student in a medical, nursing, or other health care-related degree that is supervised by a health care professional in a facility.”
