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Board hears legislative update: vaping bill tabled, immunization exemption bill advances with fiscal questions
Summary
County staff told the board Senate Bill 390 to treat vaping like smoking was tabled; an immunization-exemption bill (SB 474) has passed the Senate and awaits House Judiciary consideration amid a fiscal-note dispute. An environmental health license-fee bill cleared committee 20–0 and will move on in the Senate.
Abigail briefed the Cascade County City-County Board of Health on several bills with potential local public-health effects.
Abigail said Senate Bill 390, which would treat vaping and e-cigarette use the same as smoking under the Clean Indoor Air Act, passed the Senate but was tabled in the House and “it seems unlikely anything else will be done in this session.” She noted local action remains possible: “I…
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