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Senate committee prints bill to codify patient medical‑rights; debate over nondiscrimination language
Summary
RS31878, presented by Sen. Dan Foreman and described as the Idaho Bill of Patient Medical Rights, was sent to print. The draft codifies patient protections on informed consent and experimental drugs; one senator asked to restore nondiscrimination language for sexual orientation and gender identity, which the sponsor declined to include.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send RS31878 — described by sponsor Sen. Dan Foreman as the Idaho Bill of Patient Medical Rights — to print for formal consideration.
Foreman said the bill would “help ensure fairness of treatment, enhance patient awareness of medical treatment options, and install patient safeguards with respect to requirements for informed consent in the use of experimental drugs.” He told the…
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