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Senate committee agrees to print 'Idaho Medical Freedom Act' language that would bar many medical‑mandate requirements
Summary
Sen. Dan Foreman introduced RS31876, renaming and broadening the existing coronavirus statute to prohibit mandates for "medical interventions" in schools, businesses and governments; the committee voted to send the draft to print amid questions about definitions and scope.
Senator Dan Foreman, District 6, presented RS31876 to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, proposing to replace the existing "coronavirus stop act" with the "Idaho Medical Freedom Act" and to broaden the law from a coronavirus‑specific prohibition to a ban on many forms of required medical interventions.
Foreman defined the bill's terminology on the floor: the draft replaces references to the coronavirus with the term "medical intervention," which he described as "any pharmaceutical or biological agent or product designed to alter or restrict the biological functioning of the human body." The proposal would bar…
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