LINK: Senate Bill 1022
SPONSOR: Sen. Dan Foreman
IFF Analysis:
STATUS: Awaiting hearing in Senate Health & Welfare
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:
This legislation creates a revised section to Idaho Code, Chapter 90, Title 39, relating to Health Rights. The revised section is to be known as § 39-9004. This section establishes health rights under the law for medical patients, their family members, and legal guardians. This legislation will help ensure fairness of treatment, enhance patient awareness of medical treatment options, and install patient safeguards with respect to requirements for informed consent and the use of experimental drugs. This legislation will place necessary and expected restrictions on state and local government as to governmental authority with respect to the advertising of certain types of medicines or vaccines and the imposition of personal restrictions on Idahoans relating to widespread medical situations.
LATEST NEWS:
1/23/25: Sen. Foreman introduced this bill in Senate Health & Welfare on Wednesday, and the committee voted to print it.
About Brian Almon
Brian Almon is the Editor of the Gem State Chronicle. He also serves as Chairman of the District 14 Republican Party and is a trustee of the Eagle Public Library Board. He lives with his wife and five children in Eagle.
