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Committee amends medical-product notice bill; state health counsel warns broad language would hamper emergency powers
Summary
Representative Koppelman moved and the committee adopted an amendment to House Bill 1454 that would bar government entities from requiring an individual to take, receive or disclose medical products unless the individual had been notified and failed to opt out.
Representative Koppelman moved and the committee adopted an amendment to House Bill 1454 that would bar state agencies, political subdivisions and other government entities from requiring an individual to take, receive or disclose whether the individual has taken or received a “medical product” unless the individual has first been notified and afforded an opportunity to decline and failed to do so.
The amendment, offered by Representative Koppelman and seconded by Representative Schatz, was approved by voice vote and produced an “amended bill,” after which the committee called Allison Hicks from the Attorney General’s Office for a legal opinion on the revised language.
Allison Hicks, general counsel to the Public Health Division of…
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