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Health committee sends three requests-to-print to lawmakers, including moratorium on gene therapy immunizations
Summary
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send three RS proposals to print, advancing measures on foster-care review timelines, a temporary moratorium on certain gene therapy immunizations, and changes to foster-care licensing rules.
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send three requests-to-print (RS) to print for introduction, advancing measures that would adjust foster-care oversight and impose a temporary pause on certain gene therapy products used as immunizations.
Senator Melissa Wintrow asked the committee to print RS31946. She said the measure would clarify review timelines created by a statute enacted last session: it would keep a 14-day review timeline for short-term placements but allow a 90-day review process for residential treatment placements serving children with complex needs. Wintrow said stakeholders, including a facility in eastern Idaho and Idaho Voices for Children, told her the prior implementation created an administrative burden that…
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