LA City Council will vote on a comprehensive COVID vaccine mandate Wednesday – CBS Los Angeles

Los Angeles (CBSLA) – Los Angeles City Council will vote on Wednesday on a comprehensive ordinance requiring eligible individuals to provide evidence of COVID-19 vaccination to enter a variety of businesses including restaurants, gyms, shopping malls and personal care facilities.

If approved, the regulation would come into force on November 4th.

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It would apply to:

• Restaurants, bars, fast food restaurants, cafes, tasting rooms, cafeterias, food courts, breweries, wineries, distilleries, banquet halls and hotel ballrooms.
• Gyms and fitness facilities, including recreational facilities, gyms (including for yoga, pilates, dance, and barre), boxing gyms, fitness bootcamps, and facilities that hold indoor group fitness classes.
• Entertainment and recreation venues including movie theaters, shopping malls, concert venues, performance venues, adult entertainment venues, commercial event and party venues, sports arenas, convention centers, exhibition halls, museums, shopping malls, performing arts theaters, bowling alleys, amusement arcades, card rooms, family entertainment centers, billiards and pool halls, game areas and game centers.
• Personal care facilities, including spas, nail salons, hairdressing salons, barbershops, tanning salons, beauticians, skin care, tattoo shops, piercing shops and massage therapy places, unless medically necessary.

The regulation would also require people to present proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test in order to attend outdoor events with 5,000 or more people.

This will be significantly stricter than the ordinance issued earlier this month by the LA County Public Health Department requiring people to show proof of vaccination to enter bars, lounges, breweries, wineries and nightclubs. You must provide proof of at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by October 7 and proof of full vaccination by November 4. 19 Test within the last 72 hours to participate in outdoor events with 10,000 or more people.

According to the city council ordinance, individuals would be exempt from the mandate if they have health problems that limit their ability to be vaccinated, or if they have “genuine religious beliefs” verified by the location the individual is attempting to enter.

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People who are exempt could use the outdoor areas of the site, but if they are not available they can enter the indoor area by demonstrating a negative COVID-19 test.

The motion to move for the ordinance was passed 13-0 by the city council on Aug. 11, with councilors John Lee and Joe Buscaino absent. Lee said in an email to voters two days later that the proposal was “arbitrary, inconsistent and essentially ineffective”.

Lee’s opposition would mean the ordinance would not pass its first review and any possible approval would be delayed for another week as ordinances must be approved unanimously at their first reading. Due to the urgency clause in the regulation, the regulation would need 12 votes in favor when it was examined for a second time next week, not the eight votes normally required.

The ordinance would be similar to policy in West Hollywood, New York, and San Francisco. West Hollywood’s policy of requiring adult customers entering many indoor stores to provide proof of at least partial vaccination goes into effect October 7th, with full vaccination required starting November 4th.

On September 23, 77% of eligible LA County residents ages 12 and over had received at least one dose of the vaccine and 69% were fully vaccinated.

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