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Committee introduces RS 32793 after divided debate over medical-intervention protections for businesses and schools
Summary
Lawmakers introduced RS 32793 (an RS version of a vetoed Senate bill) after debate over whether the draft improperly limits private businesses’ ability to require medical interventions. An amended substitute to return the RS to the sponsor failed; a substitute motion to introduce RS 32793 passed on a roll-call, 11–4.
The House State Affairs Committee introduced RS 32793 after extended debate about a draft that would define and restrict "medical intervention" and limit private entities from denying services or admission based on a person's medical-intervention status.
Representative Josh Tanner, who presented the RS, said it restores language from a prior Senate bill (Senate Bill 1023 as amended) and clarifies that nothing in the RS supersedes provisions in Title 33, Chapter 5 concerning exclusion of pupils with contagious diseases or school closures. "Before you is RS 32793... this still is the exact same bill that was actually done. Senate bill 10 23 as amended that was passed the governor had vetoed," Tanner told the committee.
Much of the hearing centered on the RS's definition of "medical intervention" and how that…
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