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Sen. Lenny’s RS31856 would limit public health districts’ broad authority; committee sends measure to print
Summary
RS31856, introduced by Sen. Brian Lenny, would narrow the statutory "all things" authority of Idaho public health districts and require health actions to be based on solid science; the Senate Health & Welfare Committee voted to send the resolution to print for a full hearing.
Sen. Brian Lenny, R-Nampa, introduced RS31856 to the Senate Health & Welfare Committee as a response to lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and as a proposal to add oversight to public health districts’ authority.
"The statute says our public health districts can do all things," Lenny told the committee. "What this is doing is just knocking them down a peg and adding what I believe is a layer of accountability." He described…
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