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Senate committee advances bill limiting government mask mandates for state agencies, with carved-out exemptions
Summary
Senate State Affairs advanced House Bill 32 to the Senate floor with a recommendation that it pass; the bill would bar government-mandated face masks for most state agencies and political subdivisions, while exempting vocational and specified health and safety roles.
Senator Brian Lenny (District 13) presented House Bill 32 to the Senate State Affairs Committee, a bill that would prohibit state and political subdivisions from imposing compulsory face-mask requirements in most public settings while specifying a set of exemptions.
Lenny said the bill’s purpose is to prevent future government-mandated masking like that imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. “This bill does not prevent anyone who wants to wear a mask from wearing a mask,” Lenny told the committee, adding that the measure was intended to “draw a line between advisory and compulsory.” He argued mandatory masking had harmed children’s…
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