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Senate Health committee sends bill to move daycare immunization rules into statute
Summary
The Senate Health Committee voted to send House Bill 290 to the floor with a "do pass" recommendation after members debated shifting existing Department rules on childhood immunizations in licensed daycare facilities into statute, and raised questions about exclusions and random compliance visits.
The Senate Health Committee voted to send House Bill 290 to the floor with a "do pass" recommendation after lawmakers debated moving existing Department rules on childhood immunizations for licensed daycare facilities into statute.
Representative Healy (Rep. Healy), who represents District 15 (West Boise and South Meridian), presented the bill and said moving the rules into statute would "put[] the control back into the elected officials." She said the change would prevent the department from making temporary rules outside the legislative session, including, in her words, temporary rules "on vaccines, increase enforcement, etcetera."
Committee members questioned…
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