Ron DeSantis signs bill banning vaccine passports and suspends local virus emergency orders

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill suspending local COVID-19 emergency orders in Florida as well as prohibiting the use of “vaccine passports.”

"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," DeSantis said at a press 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...