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Senate State Affairs sends bill limiting government mask mandates to the floor
Summary
The Senate State Affairs Committee voted to send House Bill 32 to the Senate floor with a recommendation that it pass. The bill would prohibit state and political subdivisions from imposing mandatory public-health mask requirements while preserving exemptions for vocational/occupational protective uses.
The Senate State Affairs Committee voted to send House Bill 32 to the Senate floor with a recommendation that it pass, after extended testimony for and against limits on government mask mandates.
House Bill 32, introduced by Senator Brian Lenney (R-13 Nampa), would bar state agencies and political subdivisions from imposing compulsory face-mask requirements in public settings while explicitly preserving requirements where masks are an integral, compulsory safety component of required job duties (for example, certain vocational settings and health-care procedures). Lenney said the bill is…
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