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Committee agrees to print bill replacing 'Coronavirus Stop Act' with broader 'Idaho Medical Freedom Act'
Summary
Senator Dan Foreman's RS31876 would replace references to coronavirus with a broader definition of "medical intervention," forbid many government and private mandates and prohibit differential pay based on intervention status; the committee voted to send it to print after limited committee discussion.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send RS31876, which would retitle and expand the existing "Coronavirus Stop Act," to print for introduction.
Senator Dan Foreman, R-District 6, presented RS31876 and described it as a change to Idaho Code (presented as "chapter 5 title 73" in the hearing). "The proposed Idaho Medical Freedom Act replaces all references to the coronavirus with the term medical intervention," Foreman said. In his presentation he defined "medical intervention" as "any pharmaceutical or biological agent or product designed to alter or restrict the biological functioning of the human body." Foreman asked the committee for an…
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