Gov. Brad Little signed the law after rejecting a similar bill.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed a law prohibiting businesses and schools from requiring customers, employees and students to receive a vaccine or other medical procedure.
On April 4th, he signed the Idaho Medical Freedom Act or Senate Bill 1210.
The school says that “medical intervention should not be mandated on anyone who attends, enters campuses or buildings or is employed.” It also states that people cannot request medical intervention unless requested by federal law, state, county, and local governments.
The law defines it as “a medical procedure, treatment, device, drug, drug, drug, or medical action taken to diagnose, prevent, treat, or alter a person’s health or biological function.”
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Rep. Todd Achilles, a Democrat, was one of the opponents of the bill. Speaking on the floor of state lawmakers before the chamber passed the law, he said that although some of the amendments are “deeply flawed” because the definition of medical intervention is “overly broad,” the updated law is “deeply flawed.”
“In effect, what this bill does is bring together the hands of Idaho businesses that have a duty to protect their customers and employees,” he said. “We’re telling them what we can and can’t.”
Senate Bill 1210, the bill signed into law, expanded in sections related to schools by giving them the ability to prevent sick children from going to classes.
Leslie Manukian, president and founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund, who helped lawmakers create the bill, welcomed the bill to sign it.
