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Senate committee advances bill to move daycare immunization rules into statute
Summary
Representative Healy told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that House Bill 290 would move existing Department of Health and Welfare daycare immunization rules into statute and stop the department from issuing temporary rules outside the legislative session.
Representative Healy, a member of the Idaho House from District 15, told the Senate Health and Welfare Committee that House Bill 290 would move existing Department of Health and Welfare rules about immunization requirements for licensed daycare facilities into statute and prevent the department from issuing temporary rules on vaccines or enforcement outside the legislative session.
"By doing this, we're putting the control back into the elected officials," Representative Healy said, adding the change would stop the department from "mak[ing] temporary rules outside of the legislative session."
The bill text shown to the committee includes provisions that a child "not meeting the conditions of this section shall be excluded by the licensed daycare facility operator until the child is in compliance," and…
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